John McEnroe Quotes

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

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• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Know
  • Year
  • Construction

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Always
  • Will
  • Act

• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Me
  • College

• I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• I love the hip-hop nation.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Nation
  • Hip Hop

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Name

• You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • You
  • Ego

• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Women
  • Walking
  • India

• I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Power
  • Rock
  • Star

• Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mirror
  • Grateful
  • Thankful

• It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.

  

  William Bernbach
  • People
  • Writing
  • Human

• I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don't want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.

  

  Jacob Whitesides
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Song

• In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

  

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Stress

• This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

  

  John McEnroe