James Altucher Quotes

Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

James Altucher

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• Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!

  

  Becky G
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Color

• I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • Men
  • Walk

• I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Happy
  • Gay
  • Boat

• Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

  

  Patricia Meyer Spacks
  • Gossip
  • Bears
  • Flavor

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• I always wanted pink hair.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Always
  • Hair
  • Pink

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Same
  • Say

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Mind
  • Tired

• I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Always
  • Boxing
  • Boxed

• As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public art that is daring and, when appropriate, daringly traditional.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Art
  • Support
  • Professional

• The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Financial
  • Depression

• You can write the best column in the world on Monday, and it does you absolutely no good on Tuesday. There is no way to win. You just write until you are tired, they fire you, or you die.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • World
  • Good
  • Die

• The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Different
  • School

• Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

  

  James Altucher
  • Life
  • Game
  • Learning