Neil McDonald Quotes

... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.

Neil McDonald

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• I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Cooking

• A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Hero
  • Now

• What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • World
  • Differences
  • Very

• Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Man

• Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.

  

  Cam
  • Me
  • Yellow
  • Nicer

• We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Education
  • Organization
  • Graduation

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. 'Hell or High Water''s a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Why
  • High

• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Business
  • Mirror

• What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven,' there is no basis for discipleship.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Die
  • Present
  • Heaven

• The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Play
  • Couple

• I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Small
  • Still
  • Dragon

• The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Live
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know about. Don't raise your voice just to raise your voice if you have nothing behind it and don't know what you're talking about.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • Know
  • Voice

• And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Business
  • Political
  • Party

• Wealth creation is not a mathematical formula, as the truthseeking quant geeks still want everyone to believe. In the end, their lack of real-world experience and pride corrupted their mathematical genius and destroyed them. You may be able to digitize a daVinci, but that does not make it daVinci. Creating wealth is personal. It is creating assets, creating value, or whatever act of self-perpetuation that drives us to create a legacy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Pride

• When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Life
  • Confidence

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Future
  • Guest
  • Unwelcome

• ... on the right occasion a bold choice of opening can unnerve even the most steely opponent.

  

  Neil McDonald
  • Choice
  • Opponent
  • Occasion