Matthew Desmond Quotes

When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

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• Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Home
  • Win
  • Changes

• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Education
  • Support

• The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Important
  • Political

• The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • You
  • More
  • Temptation

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Like
  • Find
  • Toughness

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Effort
  • Doing

• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hand

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Authority

• If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Hate
  • Religion

• I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Way
  • Singing
  • Started

• No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Acting

• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Man
  • Literature
  • Pen

• He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Time
  • Family
  • Question

• Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Freedom
  • Creative
  • Huge

• You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Plato

• All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

  

  Edmund White

• If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Life
  • Words
  • Practice

• Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Black

• I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Planets

• When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.

  

  Matthew Desmond