Esperanza Spalding Quotes

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

Esperanza Spalding

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• Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Competition

• I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Work
  • Win

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Roma come before everything else.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Everything
  • Come
  • Before

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Together
  • Strong

• A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Same
  • Poison
  • Relative

• Every crowd has a silver lining.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Crowd
  • Silver
  • Lining

• I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • America
  • Vietnam
  • Veterans

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Why
  • Human
  • Expression

• In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Great
  • Best

• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  

  Amy Van Dyken
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Space
  • Idea

• He saw it all summed up in the blind marching of that nameless unit. A vision of gaunt shapes, sharp shiny steel, dim lamps flaring in the rain. The war machine was rolling.

  

  John Jakes
  • Up
  • War
  • Vision

• From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Beauty

• I don't want to know what they think of me - there's always going to be someone who won't like it and that'll just upset me. So, if I'm happy with it, it just matters if I've done my little vision.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Happy
  • Vision
  • Upset

• What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Vision
  • Idea
  • Identifying