John Portman Quotes

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

John Portman

• Life
• Accomplishment

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths – not until then can you know what love is.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work

• I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Children
  • Kids
  • High

• The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift - the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.

  

  Jesse Ball
  • Work

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

  

  John Portman
  • Life
  • Accomplishment