Oli Thompson Quotes

Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Difficult

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Learn
  • Mountains

• Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Envy
  • Bond

• The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Different
  • Writing

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Home
  • House
  • Lucky

• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Directing

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Dream
  • Myself
  • Best

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Father
  • Football

• It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Picture

• Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Gay

• I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Present
  • Poverty

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Language

• Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

  

  Charles Edison
  • True
  • Democracy

• Anything is possible. No one understands how far you can push your body to the limit, and I like to play with that.

  

  Max Aaron

• To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Winning
  • Littles
  • Lucky

• Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.

  

  Van Jones
  • Together
  • Future
  • Winning

• The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Children
  • Brain
  • Creative

• Preparing to lose is easy, but losing is hard. Preparing to win is hard, but winning is then easy.

  

  Oli Thompson
  • Winning