Nicholas D. Woodman (Nick Woodman) Quotes

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

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• Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Now
  • Teeth
  • Naked

• I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Business
  • Conservative
  • Enterprise

• If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.

  

  Rachel Ticotin
  • Money
  • Home
  • Yourself

• Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Together
  • Bad
  • Band

• Bill Nelson has demonstrated that he is a rubber stamp for the Obama administration and he's out of touch with the solution that we need to implement in order to get America back on the right track.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Solution
  • Touch

• If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • Way
  • Performance

• Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Always

• I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Language
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • Question
  • Space
  • German

• All my kids play guitar, sing, and dabble with writing.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Writing
  • Kids

• Every poker player, like every fisherman, needs to have a story in a box, and most poker stories are completely uninteresting.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Player

• My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Life
  • Random

• I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Job

• All women should have the ability to get ahead with hard work, be treated fairly in the workplace, and live free from fear.

  

  Conner Eldridge
  • Work
  • Live
  • Women

• I use an acne cleanser. I've always had that St. Ives apricot scrub. But I have bad skin sometimes.

  

  Lili Reinhart
  • Bad

• There are bands that I got into when I was 15, when I was mad at my dad and just wanted to be different. I don't think I'd give those bands half a chance now. But I hold some kind of nostalgia for them that I won't let go. Bands like Minor Threat and Black Flag.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Different
  • Black
  • Dad

• I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • May

• I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Honest
  • Praise

• If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Star
  • Win
  • Fail

• I think every time in your life is valuable, and you need to exist in that moment. Because if you don't - you lose it.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Life
  • Time

• To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

  

  Nicholas D. Woodman