Steve Sabol (Stephen Douglas Sabol) Quotes

When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

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• The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Success
  • Attention

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Better

• My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Soup

• I sit at this really weird crossroads. My job requires me to take in calories. I take care of myself. I eat healthy. I exercise a lot. But then I have to go to events in cocktail dresses and look fancy, and people want to interview me about what I'm wearing, and then I'm compared to people who are wearing size 2 all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Job

• I think we have too much history. It’s not so important. I think people should have fun and enjoy their own time. I haven’t done much, so why should I waste people’s memory?'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Great

• As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

  

  James Gleick
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Technology

• When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Home
  • She
  • Mother

• Aside from my family, I have two great loves in my life: acting and the fight for social justice.

  

  Alan Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great

• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

  

  David Hare
  • God
  • Honor

• Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

  

  Pauline Kael
  • Hair

• When the ratio of nutrients to calories is high, fat melts away, and health is restored. The more nutrient-dense food you consume, the more you'll be satisfied with fewer calories, and the less you'll crave fat and high-calorie foods.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • High
  • Food
  • Health

• I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.

  

  Jim Henson
  • World
  • Science

• I've definitely been in relationships where I've given too much, and I've been in relationships where I haven't given enough. I think it's a work in progress. I have to find that person where it clicks.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Work
  • Progress

• Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Answers
  • Questions

• This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Decision
  • Vision

• There was a little bit of hesitancy about staying in Pittsburgh and not moving away for college, but that didn't last long. It was right in line with what I wanted, so I auditioned there and it wasn't a tough decision.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Long
  • College
  • Moving

• Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Decision
  • Liberty
  • Economic

• I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

  

  Dawn Hudson
  • Independent
  • Films
  • Press

• When we started NFL Films, there were no focus groups, there were no demographic studies, there were no surveys. Every decision that we made, we made with our hearts, not with our heads. And, in the very beginning, we really didn't even have a business plan.

  

  Steve Sabol
  • Decision
  • Made
  • Films