Art Briles Quotes

I want people like Rocky. I like underdogs; I’ve been one all my life. I like people who take it as a challenge when they’re told they can’t do something. This whole situation is a little like that.

Art Briles

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Television
  • Hollywood
  • Quiet

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Day
  • Look
  • Camera

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Science
  • Literature

• You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Forward

• You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Power
  • You
  • Powerful

• I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Feel
  • Fearless

• Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa. For example, I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Teeth

• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Father
  • Body
  • Force

• Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Seattle

• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Will

• It feels so good to tell the truth.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Tell

• I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

  

  John Hagel III
  • People

• To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Time
  • Freedom

• The biggest challenge was becoming a leader and taking our team to the highest level. Feeling the personal responsibility to take the team to the next level. Overcoming fear of inadequacy and never getting down on yourself or doubting who you are.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • Feeling
  • Fear
  • Team

• Plots are ... what the writer sees with.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Plot

• I want people like Rocky. I like underdogs; I’ve been one all my life. I like people who take it as a challenge when they’re told they can’t do something. This whole situation is a little like that.

  

  Art Briles
  • Challenge
  • Situation
  • Underdogs