J. J. Watt Quotes

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

J. J. Watt

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• My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Long
  • Down

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Devil
  • Angel

• The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Person
  • Cry
  • Only

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Society
  • Political
  • Organization

• My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Job
  • Focus
  • Best

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Everything we've been taught about health, weight loss and aging is wrong.

  

  Jorge Cruise
  • Health

• Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.

  

  Mark Shriver
  • God
  • Dad
  • Joy

• I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • State
  • View
  • Scientist

• In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Work
  • Future
  • Couple

• If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Work
  • Vision
  • End