Steve Prefontaine (Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine) Quotes
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
Quotes to Explore
-
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-
You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
-
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
-
I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
-
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
-
I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
-
The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
-
Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
-
We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
-
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
-
Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.
-
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
-
Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
-
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
-
As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.
-
I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.
-
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.
-
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
-
Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
-
It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.
-
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
