James Harvey Robinson Quotes

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

James Harvey Robinson

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• I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • School
  • College
  • Wall

• When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Up
  • Good
  • Guy

• Fear is the passion of slaves.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Fear
  • Passion
  • Slaves

• Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Punishment
  • Only
  • Heal

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Me
  • Information
  • Try

• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Great
  • Father
  • Joy

• I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • World
  • Different
  • Culture

• Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you've determined that you don't like dirty old stinky wine - old-world flavors - you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Wine
  • California

• Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Love Is
  • Jealous

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Doing
  • Awareness

• The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Style
  • Particular
  • Stick

• If we're going to run for points we need to run in the top-five every week.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Need
  • Week
  • Run

• I didn't just wake up one day understanding how to take care of myself. I had to learn how to do so over time, and I continue to learn - each and every day. This is a process, and my body is constantly changing. So is yours. And when I learned how to accept that I will always be like this, I relaxed. Our bodies do not stand still for time.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Day

• The addition of vinaigrette to freshly roasted vegetables gives them a freshness and juiciness they don't normally have; the acidity brings out new shades of flavour, too.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • New
  • Vegetables
  • Shades

• I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

  

  George Michael
  • Play
  • Freak
  • I Want

• The Prophet (saw) said, Those who are nearest to Allah are they who are first to give a salutation (salams).

  

  Abu Dawood
  • Allah
  • Nearest
  • Salutation

• There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Bad

• You want your company to be a vehicle for many people to achieve their dreams.

  

  John Landgraf
  • People

• Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.”

  

  Ann Wroe
  • Sin
  • Charity
  • Ingratitude

• Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

  

  James Harvey Robinson