John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Human

• What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Me

• I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing 'Yellowstone' and am grateful that it has found a home in the Paramount Network. The show is both timely and timeless.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Home

• When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

  

  Omar Ahmad
  • Work
  • Start
  • Habits

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Changes
  • Salvation

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Work
  • Music
  • Love

• I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Work
  • Like
  • Singer

• I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Me
  • Kind

• I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Father
  • Simple

• You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Experience

• It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Awards

• In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

  

  Leon Panetta

• Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.

  

  John Benjamin Hickey
  • Work
  • Drug