Stephen J. Cannell (Stephen Joseph Cannell) Quotes

I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

Stephen J. Cannell

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• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Know
  • Me
  • Hero

• You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • You
  • Mean
  • Door

• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Journey

• I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Life
  • Art
  • May

• I do not like toll roads. Taxpayers are already paying for those roads through their gas taxes, and then to turn around and tell them they need to pay more to drive on the roads, I don't like it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Taxes
  • Drive
  • Roads

• When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • College
  • Day
  • Ambition

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Negative

• During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh!When we are dead, my best belovèd and I,Close well above us, that we may rest forever,Sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Up
  • May
  • Earth

• I watched my idol and fellow Dutchman Tiesto. He was the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic event - the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. At eight years old, all I can remember thinking was, 'I want to be a DJ.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Remember

• Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

  

  Geoffrey Fisher
  • Book
  • Retirement

• Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Up
  • Children
  • Help

• I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from within the West by nationalists, by nativists, and by people who doubt our - doubt the values of the West. We've gone through periods like this before; in the '70s, after Vietnam and Watergate, and certainly in the '30s, when people thought liberal democracy was dead, and the future belonged either to the fascists or the communists.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • People
  • Believe
  • Democracy

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I think feminism is about the spirit.

  

  Jane Fonda

• I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.

  

  Stephen J. Cannell
  • Work
  • Goals
  • Achieve