Isaiah Thomas Quotes

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

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• Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Comedy
  • Year
  • Corporate

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Beauty
  • Lady
  • Admit

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • She
  • Proud

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Brain

• I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Process
  • Songs

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feel
  • Guilty
  • Owning

• When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Night
  • Dark

• This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Man

• Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • Father
  • Best

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Here
  • Still
  • Bear

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Freedom
  • Silence
  • Mystery

• Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

  

  George Eliot
  • Circumstances
  • Emotions
  • Conditions

• Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

  

  Isaiah Thomas
  • Work
  • Need
  • Hear