Og Mandino Quotes

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

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• Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • School
  • Science

• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Character
  • History

• I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Food
  • Cook
  • Contend

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Relationships

• Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Ability
  • Create
  • Conquer

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Film
  • Gun
  • Choose

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Rare

• I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Everyone

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun because you get to see everyone just lounging on couches. It's right before you go out to present, so it's everyone in there. And then they have this crudite section, and cheeses and crackers.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Fun
  • Small
  • Present

• To be honest, I didn't have any expectations. I really didn't know what to expect. What I was most nervous about was the repetition of doing it over and over and over again. Does that get stale? How do you keep it fresh? Then I realized it's always new because you get to keep playing the next moment.

  

  Taissa Farmiga

• When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand, nor can your hand pick up anything.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Up
  • Hand

• When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.

  

  Jeanne Shaheen
  • Up
  • Women
  • Hand

• That's why I love wrestling: because there's so many different people. I love everybody, from Hornswoggle to the Great Khali to Seth Rollins, to The Bludgeon Brothers. I love everything about wrestling because of that.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • I Love
  • Wrestling
  • Different People

• Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Confidence
  • Struggle
  • Courage