Michael Shannon Quotes

You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

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• The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Always
  • Said
  • Employment

• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Period

• As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • People
  • Future
  • Myself

• I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Time
  • Believe

• I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

  

  Keith Waterhouse

• Throughout your whole career, there's a bunch of people you might have to kiss. Say there's this character opposite you, and you might not be into her - or him, personally. You just gotta' do it. That's your job.

  

  Chord Overstreet
  • People
  • Character
  • Job

• At every sound check, I try to practice on the stage that we're gonna play on that night, 'cause every stage is different. Whether it's concrete or whether it's plywood or whether it's Plexiglas, it all requires different things. You can't dance on concrete as well as you can dance on Plexiglas.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Different
  • Night
  • Practice

• Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.

  

  John McAfee
  • Unique
  • Competition
  • Fierce

• All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • People
  • World
  • Eye

• People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Knows
  • Clothes

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Believe
  • True

• Me against enemies, me against friends. Somehow theyboth seem to become one

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Friends
  • Enemy
  • Seems

• God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • World
  • God
  • Moral

• In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Important
  • Society
  • Ethics

• If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!

  

  Michael Nutter
  • Crazy
  • Causes
  • Tattoo

• Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

  

  Sun Tzu
  • Enemy
  • Strategy
  • Attack

• You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Understand
  • Working
  • Waste Of Time

• If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

  

  William Friedkin
  • War
  • Today
  • Stars

• You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

  

  Michael Shannon
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