John Elway Quotes

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Better
  • Environmental
  • Fuel

• Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Financial
  • Weapons
  • Finance

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Simple
  • Daily

• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hear
  • Side
  • Other

• I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Fashion

• I was working for a Swedish TV show - I'm Swedish - who basically did kind of spectacular stories. It was almost like CBS '60 Minutes,' but a Swedish version where we actually did travel quite a lot. After a while, I realized that travel is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a longer time and just go off and explore?

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• I certainly never saw myself as posh.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Posh

• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Achieve
  • Results
  • Economic

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Moment
  • Part

• There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In retrospect, I can say fair enough, that you call yourself a band member, and you've got to step up to the plate when the need arises.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Band

• We need to be vigilant about how we design and train these machine-learning systems, or we will see ingrained forms of bias built into the artificial intelligence of the future.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Future
  • Learning
  • Design

• When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

  

  Ansel Elgort
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • School

• I like the idea of being sort of withdrawn and mysterious, and what can be more mysterious that someone wearing a trash bag, like a dark trash bag, with eye holes that say "nihilism?" You'd be curious. What's underneath that? Is it perfect? Or is it broken?

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Wearing
  • Trash
  • Nihilism

• If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Inspiration
  • Discipline

• Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

  

  John Elway
  • Time