John Engler Quotes

As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

John Engler

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• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Know

• I always say the greats just get better.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Always
  • Better
  • Say

• The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Care
  • Story

• I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Soul
  • Convinced

• We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Road
  • Progress

• He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Trust
  • Enough
  • Will

• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Never
  • Fight
  • Determined

• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Team

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Home

• All art is a confession.

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Art
  • Confession

• They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Must be awfully lucky to see colors like that. I bet they don't even know how lucky they are.

  

  Gary Ross

• To those possessed of breeding, learning, handsome looks,Who have no wisdom, neither discipline, you need not bow.But those who do have these two qualities,Though lacking other virtues, you should revere.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Discipline

• Donna, donna, dark, Stooping in indigo gown And cloudy constellations, Conceal yourself or disclose Fewest things to the lover - A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, A pungent bloom against your shade.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Hand
  • Dark

• The problems of this country are not going to be solved by one actor or even 10 actors. The problems are far too big. On the screen we get poetic justice in three hours. Poetic justice doesn’t come in a lifetime.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Country
  • Justice

• Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Power
  • Trust
  • Evil

• When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian school in Texas, and the thing that I wrote was no bees. No bees. No mud. No infirmities.

  

  William Fitzgerald Harper
  • School
  • Christian
  • Kid

• Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

  

  Mindy Kaling
  • Members
  • Demographics

• The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 65, you think, 'I could play Juliet now. I understand it.'

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sex

• Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

  

  Sophocles
  • World
  • Money
  • Demoralizing

• There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • Film
  • Difference
  • Cinema

• As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda.

  

  John Engler