Jeremy Lin Quotes

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

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• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Fail
  • Could
  • Expense

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Four

• My stage name is actually my nickname given to me by my dad when I was a baby.

  

  OMI
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Baby

• The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Exercise

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fun

• You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Husband

• I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Why
  • Society

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• Everything and anything is valuable.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Everything
  • Anything

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Long
  • Said
  • Difference

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • True
  • Dream
  • Winning

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I just hope my songs mean enough to people. And I feel like you have to live to learn.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.

  

  Meg Whitman
  • Work
  • Question
  • Pain

• There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • War

• I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Heart
  • Red
  • Chicago

• Each woman brings her own separate, unique strengths to the family and the Church. Being a daughter of God means that if you seek it, you can find your true identity.

  

  James E. Faust
  • God
  • Family
  • True

• My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Family
  • Pretty