Hamilton Holt Quotes

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.

Hamilton Holt

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• You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brave

• Let us not be carried away by the undisguised agitations of leaders who virtually asked people to take the law into their own hands.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Law
  • Hands

• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Value
  • Company
  • Cost

• Russians don't complain, usually.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Complain
  • Russians

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Book
  • Pictures
  • Sleeping

• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Single

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Men
  • She

• I’ve been walking my mind to an easy time,My back turned towards the sun.Lord knows the cold wind blows it’ll turn your head around.Well, there’s hours of time on the telephone line,To talk about things to come.Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.

  

  James Taylor
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Sun

• Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • American
  • Girl
  • Culture

• But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

  

  Danny Glover
  • Believe
  • Choices

• It's a huge deal for us to have our own headlining tour and our name on the ticket.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion

• I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

  

  Billy Bob Thornton
  • Fear
  • Flying

• When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

  

  Anchee Min
  • Together
  • Chinese
  • Chicago

• People want real food. The demand for it is through the roof.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • People
  • Real
  • Food

• I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • People
  • Faith
  • Value

• Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

  

  John McCain
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • War
  • Mother

• What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?

  

  Anna Biller
  • Woman
  • View
  • Cinema

• He occasionally placed two chairs back-to-back, and, supporting himself with his hands on the backrests, swung his legs back and forth, his radiant eyes searching our faces for looks of admiration and encouragement. It seemed he had become entirely reconciled with God.

  

  Bruno Schulz
  • God
  • Eyes

• Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results.

  

  Hamilton Holt
  • Half Effort
  • Half Results