Alexander Elder Quotes

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

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• John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Green

• My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Movies
  • Short
  • Boring

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Up
  • Business
  • Ideas

• My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Water

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • Done
  • Think

• There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Help
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Face

• Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Family
  • Difficult

• Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Politics

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Facts
  • Fuel
  • Conservation

• In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Things
  • See

• I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Long
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I learned how important physical conditioning is. I learned how to focus on an objective in spite of all kinds of hazards. I learned how to deal with stress, too.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Stress

• All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Humanity
  • Deep

• Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Women
  • Power

• My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Father
  • Words
  • Law

• 'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • Real
  • Happy
  • Fun

• I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

  

  David Ginola
  • Feeling
  • Action
  • Safety

• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  

  Alexander Elder
  • Action
  • Odds
  • Professionals