Jerry West Quotes

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Words
  • Eye

• When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Age

• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Very
  • Days
  • Humanitarian

• Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Years
  • New
  • Generation

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Done
  • Place
  • First

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Great
  • Dangerous
  • Artists

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
  • Adversity
  • Greatest

• Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

  

  Maria Monk
  • Up
  • Water
  • Door

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• My sisters were teenagers when I was born, so the last thing they wanted was a little nappy-headed boy running around. I would imitate them or copy things off TV.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Running
  • Boy

• I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

  

  Doug Collins
  • Great
  • Different
  • Player

• You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

  

  Jerry West
  • Work
  • Great
  • Goals