Jonny Wilkinson Quotes

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Jonny Wilkinson

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• The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.

  

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• I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.

  

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• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

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• For some reason, people with comedy, any time they can detect a pattern, it kind of freaks them out. 'Those guys are always together!' Yeah, they're a comedy team. Anything they can recognize as a pattern they think is a hole.

  

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• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
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• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.

  

  Karrie Webb
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• Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

  

  Flula Borg
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• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

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• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

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• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

  

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• Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

  

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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

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• Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

  

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• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

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• Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.

  

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• Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

  

  Paracelsus
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• I ask all my actors to do two things: I ask them to fail for me, and I ask them to surprise me.

  

  Derek Cianfrance

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
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• My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • Fear
  • Preparation