John David Washington Quotes

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

John David Washington

• Football
• Trust
• Failure
• Rejection

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• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Play
  • Football
  • Times

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Trust
  • Internal

• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• I don't trust a lot of journalists.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Trust
  • Lot
  • Journalists

• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • World
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Trust

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Football

• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • True

• There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Nice
  • Trust

• Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Trust
  • Progress
  • Goals

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Water
  • Trust
  • Worry

• We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Care
  • Personality

• It's sort of my job to feel good.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Job
  • Feel Good

• Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Freedom
  • Math

• Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.

  

  Eric Horvitz
  • Idea
  • Visions
  • Technologists

• In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

  

  John David Washington
  • Football
  • Trust
  • Failure