Isaiah Thomas Quotes

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

Isaiah Thomas

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• My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Long
  • Live
  • Money

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Popular

• Africa is the future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Future
  • Africa

• So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Way
  • Interesting
  • Story

• I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Want
  • Faith

• According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Miserable
  • Papers
  • Resignation

• One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Always
  • Hard
  • Underestimate

• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Remember
  • Law
  • Fall

• Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Desire
  • Movement
  • Western

• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fame

• There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Failure
  • See
  • Darkness

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Business
  • New

• If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Fall

• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.

  

  William Lane Craig
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Intelligent

• The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

  

  Joseph Pilates
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Body

• Science is the storytelling of our time.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Time
  • Education
  • Storytelling

• I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Matter
  • Make
  • Shots