Terrence J (Terrence Jenkins) Quotes

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • I Can

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  

  Earl Warren
  • World
  • Today
  • Completion

• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Life
  • Story
  • Trials

• The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Business

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Use
  • Box

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • War
  • Serious
  • Politics

• The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • She

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.

  

  Alan Watts
  • God
  • Reality
  • Deep

• The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.

  

  Marilyn Ferguson
  • Work
  • Family
  • Nature

• My job is to entertain the readers in such a manner that, when they reach the end of the book, they feel like they've gotten their money's worth.

  

  Clive Cussler
  • Money
  • Job
  • Book

• Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Long
  • Experience
  • College

• In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

  

  Terrence J
  • Black
  • College
  • Limitation