Magic Johnson Quotes

My work ethic is from sports.

Magic Johnson

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Work
  • Love
  • Know

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Want

• This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Office
  • Wait

• When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Work
  • You
  • Doubt

• My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.

  

  Barbara Goldsmith
  • Work
  • Art
  • Guilty

• Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Movie
  • Today
  • Culture

• For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves; that is, has a positive need to brush, scrape, kindle herself, gossiping.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Soul
  • Sports
  • Cold

• I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

  

  Alex Chilton Big Star
  • Life
  • Business

• I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Regret

• My work ethic is from sports.

  

  Magic Johnson
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