Tony Evans Quotes
Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I think Trump is a very interesting candidate in this sense: I think he has cross-party appeal.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.
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Things that are impossible just take longer.
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Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
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The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.
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Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.
