Jon Gruden Quotes

I love finishers.

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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Together
  • Me
  • Play

• Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Pride

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Years

• For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Years
  • Said
  • Being

• I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Work
  • Present

• I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Little

• There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Picture

• You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • You

• I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Government
  • Lies
  • Lion

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02

  

  Oswald Spengler

• It is a political axiom that power follows property.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Power
  • Political

• Emptiness the starting point. - In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Water

• We don't think U.S. consumers want less choice.

  

  Jeff Bewkes

• It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Weird

• When I founded Stitch Fix, I wanted to create a company that I would want to work at for the rest of my life.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to write a song for this guy, because he always told me I would have a No. 1 song.'

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Song

• There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Up
  • Done

• If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.

  

  David O. Sacks
  • World
  • Financial
  • Destiny

• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  

  John Polkinghorne

• I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Turn
  • Cards

• Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • God
  • True
  • Words

• Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Regret

• I love finishers.

  

  Jon Gruden