Nido Qubein Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
-
All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
-
I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
-
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
-
There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
-
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
-
The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
-
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
-
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
-
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
-
I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
-
I choose to express myself.
-
My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?
-
The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
-
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
-
What force is more potent than love?
-
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
-
I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.
-
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
-
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
-
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
-
If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
