Robert Zoellick Quotes

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

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• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Bit

• Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Kids
  • Lost

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Simple
  • Style
  • Very

• At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm
  • Technologies

• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Yourself
  • Make
  • Somebody

• You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Just
  • Singer

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Me

• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• I always root for the defense.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Always
  • Defense
  • Root

• Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Earth
  • Air
  • Sun

• Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Fate

• We had our chance to get back in the game in the third quarter when Dirk went down but Jet (Terry) and Marquis picked up their games and we didn't.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Game
  • Chance

• Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Men
  • Poetry

• I am not pregnant, but I've had three kids, and there is a 'bump.' From now on, ladies, I will have a 'bump' and it will be my 'baby bump,' and let's just all settle in and get used to it. It's not going anywhere.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Kids
  • Ladies
  • Not Pregnant

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Money
  • Want
  • Security

• All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Mistake