Amby Burfoot Quotes

You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

Amby Burfoot

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• Body
• Helping
• Tough
• Busy
• Plans
• Shapes

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• There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  

  Ovid
  • More
  • Alcohol
  • Nap

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Character
  • Girl

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Kids
  • Enjoy
  • Working

• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Habit
  • Habits
  • Trail

• My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Game
  • Favorite
  • Pyramid

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Want
  • Yourself

• One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • She
  • Guy

• Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Software
  • Page

• I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Professional

• There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.

  

  Randa Haines
  • People
  • Experience
  • Power

• Up to a certain time I was cutting into things. Then I realized that the thing I was cutting was the cut. Rather than cut into the material, I now use the material as the cut in space.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Up
  • Time
  • Space

• I've inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I'm the perfect mix of Philomena.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Culture
  • Perfect

• If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Blood
  • Gospel
  • Worldliness

• I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Government
  • Hands

• 'Agent Mom' is a perfect opportunity for me to do what I love... develop characters, act and take incredible stories to my fans. So yes, I can absolutely see myself cast as 'Agent Mom.'

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Opportunity
  • Perfect
  • Mom

• You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Helping