James Heckman Quotes

Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

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• If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Simple
  • Better
  • Voice

• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Team
  • Problem

• CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Going
  • Minute
  • Fired

• I'm very wary of news on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Television
  • Very
  • News

• If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Trying
  • Law
  • Justice

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Different
  • Success
  • Man

• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Life
  • Spring
  • Brilliant

• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Time
  • War
  • End

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Marriage

• Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Think
  • Acting
  • Relax

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Man
  • Bible

• Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Respect
  • Regret
  • Greatest

• An army marches on its stomach.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Army
  • Stomach

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I’m almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn’t failing, it’s getting too comfortable. Every day we’re writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that’s made all the difference. Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Trying

• There are ecosystems like coral reefs at risk through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Ecosystems
  • Acidification
  • Colar reefs

• We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Know
  • Prove

• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  

  James Heckman