Ezra Koenig Quotes

I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

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• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Optimistic

• I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Offer
  • CSI

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Source
  • Flow

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • College
  • Goal
  • Swimming

• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Think
  • Striving

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Long
  • Change
  • Effort

• What I do is I do my job.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job

• All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Good
  • Wife
  • Happiness

• The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Best
  • Kid

• I'd like to think that maybe the average person is rational, and they realise that I'm not this crazy monster that, at times, I've been perceived to be.

  

  James Arthur
  • Crazy
  • Monster

• My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Trying
  • She

• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Work
  • Done

• I have a lot left inside. I believe my art will last 500 years, 1,000 years and forever. For me, art is everything. I will strive to create works of art until I die, in the hope that my work will continue to touch the hearts of people even after I have died.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Excited