Jim Cantrell Quotes

We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

Jim Cantrell

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• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Like
  • Lose
  • Competitive

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Great
  • City

• I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Saying

• When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Body
  • Better

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Success

• If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Women
  • Mean
  • Heroes

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Wind
  • Research

• At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Love
  • Kids

• It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• People think of politicians having true power, but that's less and less true. After all, they are often constrained or being edged into a corner by a whole series of contingencies.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • People
  • Power
  • True

• Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.'s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.

  

  Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • Natural
  • Activities
  • Emergency

• One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Character
  • Taken

• There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.

  

  Barry Took
  • People
  • Really
  • Old

• I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• We all have our levels of risk tolerance. People who have decided they want to go to space are going to go.

  

  Jim Cantrell
  • People
  • Space
  • Risk