Alice Steinbach Quotes

Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

Alice Steinbach

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• All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Pain

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • You
  • Style

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Negative

• My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Child

• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • Humble
  • Drawn

• When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Good
  • True
  • Feeling

• Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Best
  • Ideas

• I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Parent
  • Losing

• Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • America
  • Day
  • Sports

• Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Myself
  • Mistakes
  • Learned

• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Waste

• We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Know
  • Focus

• L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Fake
  • Superficial

• Honestly, like, I fall in love with souls, and I don't really even see anything but that, to be honest.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Fall

• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Without
  • Fat
  • Sunglasses

• I've realized that I can do performances.

  

  David Hockney

• Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

  

  Alice Steinbach
  • Believe
  • Things
  • Happen