John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
-
I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
-
The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
-
I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
-
I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
-
Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
-
CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
-
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
-
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
-
There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
-
I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
-
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
-
I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
-
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
-
You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
-
I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
-
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
-
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
-
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
-
Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.
-
Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person.
-
I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.
-
The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.
