Phil Bredesen (Philip Norman Bredesen Jr) Quotes

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

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• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Coffee

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the various little sources that feed into the river.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Ocean

• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • Waiting

• Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Myself

• ..emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours – alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes..

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Waiting

• I've known some bad people and some good people in my life, and it's the bad ones who live in fear, all the time. Cause they know their own hearts... And they think everyone else is just waiting to pull the same moves on them that they've got planned to pull on somebody else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Bird

• Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Waiting

• Of course we know that an untroubled state of mind cannot last. So we say that inspiration comes and goes but really it is there all the time waiting for us to be untroubled again. We can therefore say that it is pervasive. Young children are more untroubled than adults and have many more inspirations.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Children

• We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the stars to line up. And, you know, they don't hold the door open for you. You kind of have to muscle your way in.

  

  Matt Cartwright
  • Up
  • High
  • Political

• My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Waiting
  • Professional

• I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Time
  • Together
  • Fun

• Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Attitude
  • Shape

• Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats and furs. We won't need an abstraction, a dollar bill, but real tangible goods to survive.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Real
  • Money

• The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Platform

• I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop learning about. Actually, in high school there was a time that I was thinking about just concentrating on painting and I asked my music teacher, Mr. Sondberg, for advice and he encouraged me to stick with the music as well. So all my life I have been singing and painting.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

  

  Phil Bredesen
  • Waiting
  • Encourage
  • Entrepreneurs