John Portman Quotes

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

John Portman

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Strong
  • Ego
  • Insanity

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Policy
  • Source
  • Consistent

• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Long
  • I Can
  • Knit

• I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Try

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Want

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Husband
  • First
  • Dress

• Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Space

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• We observe things in the present and then, okay, we're assuming that that's always happened in the past, and we're going to figure out how this happened. You see? There is a difference between what you observed and what happened in the past.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Past
  • Present

• Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Free
  • Path
  • Unique

• If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • Life
  • Animal

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Family
  • Man

• It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

  

  John Portman
  • Life
  • Accomplishment