Nonito Donaire Quotes

Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

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• The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Direction

• I don't run behind authority.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Authority
  • Run
  • Behind

• I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Fighting
  • Beach
  • Routine

• The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Different
  • Story
  • Opera

• Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Me
  • Old

• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  

  Wendell Phillips

• We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Control

• I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• I didn't have big movie offers, or any big agents wanting to work with me. I had to go grassroots, start at the bottom and go on 150 auditions before someone finally gave me a shot.

  

  Donnie Wahlberg
  • Work
  • Movie

• George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Air
  • Texas

• I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

  

  Robert Smith Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • Rock

• I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

  

  Allyson Felix
  • Faith
  • Running
  • Blessed

• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Why
  • Community
  • Friend

• If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.

  

  Francis Picabia

• Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Beginning

• I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Failing

• The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • People
  • God
  • Way

• We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Age
  • Society
  • Generations

• The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Dance
  • Psalms

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  

  Pat Riley
  • Up
  • Important
  • Voice

• Music is my catharsis for that. It's an incredible blessing that I have this way of expressing myself through music and lyric, and I'm so grateful for that in moments of pain or of suffering - that I have this means of channeling it; it's really amazing. My band as well - having them around and being able to jump on stage and bond together and share that energy is really uplifting as well.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Music
  • Together
  • Energy

• The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

  

  William Kingdon Clifford
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Circumstances

• Growing up, I kind of adopted that mentality, going all out, being a warrior.

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Warrior
  • Mentality
  • Adopted