Theo Epstein Quotes

Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

Theo Epstein

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• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• I brought several national projects to Katihar.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Projects
  • Brought
  • Several

• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • You
  • Understand

• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moment

• I am a very selfish person.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Person
  • Selfish

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.

  

  Watt Key
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nice

• You can get stale writing with each other for a while.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Other

• To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Win
  • Motivational

• I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Good
  • Think
  • Day

• People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • People
  • Way
  • Kind

• At the heart of art is learning to see

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art

• Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Career

• In the beginning of my career, I'm not going to lie, before I met Cash and before everything took off, I used to go crazy on them. I used to respond, but then my energy just got drained from it, and one day I said to myself, "What am I doing?"

  

  Nav
  • Career
  • Crazy
  • Doing

• I don't consider this hard work. I love it, and I think I get to make a difference. I really believe in Secretary Clinton, and I want to feel like I'm part of making a difference; I really do.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Love

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.

  

  Theo Epstein
  • Career
  • Failure
  • Adversity