Jeremy Grantham Quotes

As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

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• If I was involved with the NFL, I'd seriously consider adopting some of the rules used in Canada. I've heard, unofficially, of course, some NFL club owners have talked about adding a feature or two. The NFL went for the two-point conversion. Professional sport is entertainment, and the CFL, I believe, is ahead of the NFL in that regard.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Believe
  • Professional
  • Rules

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Star
  • Beginning

• I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Road

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Up
  • Long
  • Night

• I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Never
  • Fame
  • After

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Job
  • Personal

• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Play
  • Because
  • Puzzle

• I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Time
  • Job
  • Stupid

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Imagination
  • Vision
  • Product

• Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Remember
  • Risk
  • Flying

• It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Real

• Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • World
  • Picture
  • Successful

• I work with brands that I personally connect with or personally use. For example, I was already driving the Suzuki Hayabusa long before I started endorsing Suzuki.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Long
  • Driving

• I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now. But there's so many other kinds of movies they won't make right now.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Different
  • Baseball

• We continue to grow, and, just like with countries like China or other countries where we are not doing particularly well, we take a really long-term approach.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Long

• Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

  

  Gangrel
  • Long
  • Purpose
  • Littles

• There are as many ways to eat a vegan diet as there are people who discover it. Just about any way you do it, provided you focus on unprocessed foods, include vitamin B

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Focus
  • Vegan

• Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.

  

  Okakura Kakuzo
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Bamboo

• ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Worship

• As a professional, you can afford to pick some stocks and be wrong about a few of them. To keep your job, you cannot take the risk of being seen to be wrong about the 'big picture' for very long.

  

  Jeremy Grantham
  • Long
  • Job
  • Risk