Alan Brennert Quotes

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

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• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Death
  • Man
  • Hero

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• Hungry people almost never have to be pushed by a manager to work harder, because they are self-motivated and diligent. They are constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity. And they loathe the idea that they might be perceived as slackers.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Never
  • Popular
  • System

• The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

  

  Kate Bush
  • World
  • Important
  • Play

• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Weird

• My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • People
  • Interested
  • Press

• It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

  

  John Gunther
  • Driving

• Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Relationship
  • Trust
  • Listening

• Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • God
  • Done
  • Power

• I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  

  Buddy Rich

• Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Rules

• Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Mexico

• Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Need
  • Euthanasia

• He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Nature
  • Enough
  • Adventure

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Think
  • Reasons
  • Look Back

• Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Training
  • Move
  • Meet

• Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

  

  Alan Brennert
  • Move
  • Ahead
  • Look Back