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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• Because I'm always away, coming home to a clean house means a lot to me. Trust me, I've lived with a lot of roommates, and straight guys are just kids who don't pick up after themselves.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Kids

• One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spirit and heart of that community, there's the church, the local football team, the local pub and the theatre.

  

  David Soul
  • Heart
  • Team
  • Community

• Some might argue that the current generation seems uninterested in Christianity because they want to avoid issues like sin and repentance, but I don’t think that’s the case. I think people are hungry for Jesus, but they are starting to realize they have been fed a cheap American version, and they are rightly rejecting this counterfeit. Their rejection should be seen not as a rejection of Jesus, but a rejection of obscured versions of him. People are tired of being fed a watered-down version of Jesus. People are tired of an American Jesus. They want something that’s more…

  

  Benjamin L. Corey
  • People
  • Jesus
  • Sin

• We are always afraid to ask because we aren't afraid of the answer but the feeling of rejection.

  

  AnNa R. Rosenstolz
  • Afraid
  • Answer
  • Rejection

• Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Children
  • Right
  • Obligation

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

  

  John David Washington
  • Football
  • Trust
  • Failure