George Foreman Quotes

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

George Foreman

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• I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Street
  • Champagne
  • Soup

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Time
  • Power
  • Technology

• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Fame
  • Annoying
  • Too

• I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • School
  • Friends
  • Me

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Experience
  • Without
  • Makes

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Feeling

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Community

• I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Work
  • Want
  • Thought

• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

  

  Freya Stark
  • War
  • Sleep
  • Daughter

• I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They're all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Work
  • Different
  • Children

• Behave simply and hold on to purity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Hold
  • Purity
  • Behave

• Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

  

  James Joyce
  • Excellence
  • Fierce

• Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

  

  George Foreman
  • Inspiration
  • Excellence
  • Perspiration