Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe

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• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Present
  • Moment

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• I don't leave the house without thinking of how to represent myself.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Myself

• At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Red

• Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Book

• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• It is less fun to talk about what I am feeling rather than what I am thinking. Saying 'I feel awesome' isn't really interesting or enquiring.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Thinking
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Exercise

• You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

  

  Phyllis Diller
  • Shoes

• Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Party

• I waste a lot of money buying the same pair of shoes.

  

  Big Sean
  • Money
  • Shoes

• I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I never want to change. I get nervous about that... people thinking that I've changed just because the circumstances of my life have.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.

  

  Buzz Osborne
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Interesting

• I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Music

• I've turned down good directors before because I knew the part didn't speak to me and I've worked with less talented directors before because the part I had such passion for.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Passion
  • Directors
  • Worked

• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Live
  • War
  • Science

• But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • God
  • Children
  • Nature

• Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.

  

  Erik Wemple
  • People
  • Enterprise
  • Competing

• You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Thinking
  • Needs
  • Exercise