Richard Jenkins Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• Wait a minute. I don't need to keep proving myself. I don't need to keep showing up at every party.

  

  Christine Baranski
  • Up
  • Party
  • Waiting

• I used to take that God's-eye view as a comfort when I was a child. I'd think, "Well, we couldn't find the world meaningful at all if it weren't for death." Of course, that is the smuggest and most intolerable of all perspectives because I'm not suffering from the death or the pain.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold myself up to such a high standard. I'm pretty serious about my fantasy football, though.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • Sun

• To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Free
  • Personality

• Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

  

  Paul Muldoon
  • Poet
  • Edge
  • Pitch

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

  

  Richard Jenkins
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