Nick Bilton Quotes

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• No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Me
  • Say
  • Pressure

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivational
  • Aim
  • Mark

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Mark

• Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I thought Mark looked real good on Friday. But hopefully he'll be able to take more work this week. We'll need to start this game off absolutely sharp, playing against Tampa. They have one of the best defenses in the league.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• Mark took most of the script and looked good. I'm sure that's the way we'll start.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Training
  • Improvement

• In talking to Mark, he gives me the impression that he thinks he can go and we'll work towards that.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Work
  • Impression
  • Mark

• Let God fling you out (as seed), and do not go until He does. If you select your own spot, you will prove an empty pod. If God sows you, you will bring forth fruit.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Fruit
  • Spot

• It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.

  

  Alane Ferguson
  • World
  • Live
  • Human

• Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Action
  • Mark
  • Executives

• You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Walking
  • Street
  • Spot

• There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of quietness and reverence. To souls baptized in Christian nobleness the largest sphere of command is but a wider empire of obedience, calling them, not to escape from holy rule, but to its full impersonation.

  

  James Martineau
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Mark

• I wasn't sure when to push it or what to expect. Now I know what to expect. Hopefully, I'll be able start mixing everything together and see how it goes. As of now, I'm planning on pitching opening day. If not, I'll pitch on the fifth day. I guarantee I'll have one spot in the rotation.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Spot
  • Rotation
  • Guaranty

• We feel very confident the Big East will retain its spot in the BCS, ... We feel we are one of the six strongest conferences in the country. We may be sixth, but we're sixth.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Confident
  • Spot
  • Big East

• What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Should
  • Hated
  • Mark

• However it happened, she at any rate suffered herself to be allured to the fatal spot, and so gave opportunity to the Devil. For we should keep as far as possible from that which is prohibited, nor ever tempt God by unnecessarily approaching it, either through curiosity or any other impelling cause. Had Eve avoided the vicinity of the tree, she could never have cast upon it that look which ruined herself and the world.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Opportunity
  • Devil
  • Spot

• As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Spot
  • Appears

• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Trust
  • Jesus

• Every job, once you get there and start doing it, you approach it the same way. And it does become a serious thing, because it's not easy to do, even something silly. You still have to be professional and perform.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Serious
  • Easy

• Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Like
  • Yoga
  • Actually

• I had a very funny family.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Family
  • Funny
  • Very

• I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • House
  • Red

• If there is no X to mark the spot, there is no spot.

  

  Nick Bilton
  • Mark
  • Spot