Richard Jenkins Quotes

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richard Jenkins

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• I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get that, and go for the simple songs, but I prefer something a bit more complicated, which is more meaningful to the creator.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Simple

• I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• Baltimore residents deserve a commitment from leaders to deliver meaningful changes and the possibility of a better future, and so does every Marylander who loves our great state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Great
  • Future
  • Commitment

• You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • True
  • Success

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Better

• We cannot effect meaningful change if we become complacent, if we become comfortable with our own positions in the status quo.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Meaningful

• In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • May
  • Society
  • Meaningful

• Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Interesting
  • Meaningful

• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • History
  • Architecture
  • Meaningful

• Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• I believe there is no natural ceiling on the revenue Twitter can generate. I also believe that Twitter's reach can become more pervasive and its impact on the world more meaningful.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • World
  • Believe
  • Meaningful

• Just in a professional world, sometimes a phone call is definitely more meaningful than a text.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • World
  • Professional
  • Meaningful

• The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.

  

  Andrew Zimmern
  • Life
  • Age
  • Food

• I just want to do something meaningful in the world. I want to contribute positively. That means the roles I get to play as well.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • World
  • Meaningful

• Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

  

  John Stossel
  • Purpose
  • Meaningful

• An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Persons
  • Meaningful
  • Patient

• I love playing outsiders, I always do.

  Antony Sher

• I listen to other guitar players, yeah. It gives me new concepts and shows me where the instrument is going for the future and it is going some places. There are some musicians who are really putting out a good vibe with new theories. I try and keep up.

  

  George Benson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Dark
  • Sun
  • Smoking

• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  

  Richard Jenkins
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