Jim Pattison Quotes

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Experience
  • True
  • Emotional

• I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Real
  • May
  • Fashion

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Balance
  • Birds

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Me

• You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Remember

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • People
  • Job
  • Obstacles

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Myself
  • Optimist
  • Pragmatic

• When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• When we're filming, I sometimes look into the camera and wonder who's out there, who will be watching.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Wonder

• With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • People
  • Opportunity

• I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.

  

  Eugene Richards
  • Opportunity
  • Photography
  • Pay Attention

• It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

  

  Jim Pattison
  • Opportunity