H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Quotes
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
Pat Conroy
A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
Ted Yoho
The main thing is to know something and to say it.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
Rafael Vinoly
Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian
I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
A.J. Styles
I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
Olga Fonda
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
Daniel Day-Lewis
You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.
Walton Goggins
The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.
Fareed Zakaria
I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
Wallace Shawn
You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
Daniel Barenboim
I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.
Tom Hardy
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
Dan Rather
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
Epictetus
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
Venus Williams
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
