George Matthew Adams Quotes

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

George Matthew Adams

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• If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Interesting
  • Grow
  • Flowers

• I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • New
  • New York
  • Starting

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hope

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!

  

  Larry Williams
  • Time
  • Day
  • Down

• The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.

  

  Kaki King
  • Done
  • Know
  • Guitar

• Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • God
  • Same
  • Nothing

• I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Training
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Thought

• If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • School
  • Study

• I don't think I make decisions as an actor based on what I think the fans will or will not want at this point.

  

  Charlie Cox

• If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Morning

• The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

  

  Brian J. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Action

• At some point, there is going to be a terrorist diaspora out of Syria like we've never seen before.

  

  James Comey

• You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Marketing
  • Valuable

• Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Time
  • Remember

• I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Grass
  • WIld
  • Village

• Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Kindness

• The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Infinitely
  • Continuum
  • Divisible

• No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

  

  George Matthew Adams