Brian O'Driscoll Quotes

Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

Brian O'Driscoll

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

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• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

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• I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

  

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• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

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• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

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• There is not love where there is no will.

  

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• I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

  

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• To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

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• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

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• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

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• A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

  

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• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

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• Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

  

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• After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

  

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• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

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• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

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• There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

  

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• It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.

  

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• I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.

  

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• I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

  

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• I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.

  

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• Last summer was probably the biggest disappointment of my career, but now I have something bad with which to balance the good. I will no longer take anything for granted.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Summer
  • Disappointment