Jordan Rodgers (Jordan Edward Rodgers) Quotes

First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

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• Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Day

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Today
  • Reality
  • Everybody

• The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drive

• I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Never

• People don't actually stay still, you know - when their area is a disaster, they go somewhere else, right? And that's just a natural human impulse.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Long
  • Wife
  • Always

• To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Wonderful
  • Bless

• I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Life
  • History

• The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

  

  Max Levchin
  • Important
  • Single

• I wouldn't put myself on the same pedestal as Sarah Lancashire.

  

  Katherine Kelly

• If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Vision

• Dad was a pure entrepreneur. The dinner conversations weren't like, 'Did the Yankees win today?'

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Today
  • Dad
  • Entrepreneur

• No way, because there's love relationships, there's sex relationships and then there's the band.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Band
  • Sex

• In acting, you can't do things for the money. You've got to do a project because you like it.

  

  Charity Shea
  • Money

• Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from the real world.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • World
  • Real
  • Environment

• A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Work
  • Art
  • Independent

• When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

  

  David Morrell
  • Writing

• My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Father
  • Day
  • Mom

• We know that people are less open in conversations if the other conversant puts a cell phone on the table. Even if it's turned off. The sign is enough to close the mind and make a prospective client or lover less likely to do what you ask. As people realize this, they'll start putting away phones or turning them off.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Mind

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• In one way, it is this sense of order and also love that, I think, really saved Eleanor Roosevelt's life. And in her own writing, she's very warm about her grandmother, even though, if you look at contemporary accounts, they're accounts of horror at the Dickensian scene that Tivoli represents: bleak and drear and dark and unhappy. But Eleanor Roosevelt in her own writings is not very unhappy about Tivoli.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Grandmother

• First impressions are huge, especially with the coaching staff.

  

  Jordan Rodgers
  • Coaching
  • Huge
  • Impressions