John Caudwell Quotes

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• I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why I write for the younger set. My reply: 'I can't think of anyone I'd rather write for.'

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Why
  • Think
  • Young

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  

  Iain Banks
  • World
  • Years
  • Club

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Fear
  • Football
  • Expectations

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Race
  • Anticipation

• Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Feedback

• Endorsing unconventional monetary policies unquestioningly is tantamount to saying that it is acceptable to distort asset prices if there are other domestic constraints on growth.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Growth
  • Saying
  • Asset

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Year
  • Last

• I'm too disorganized.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Too
  • Disorganized

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Driving

• I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movies

• The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Win

• The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• In an improv group and a successful work team, the members play off one another, each person's contributions providing the spark for the next. Together, the improvisational team creates a novel emergent product, one that's more responsive to the changing environment.

  

  R. Keith Sawyer
  • Work
  • Together
  • Team

• I saw that e-mail was insidiously invading Phones 4u, so I banned it immediately.

  

  John Caudwell