Ben Sherwood Quotes

The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.

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• When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.

  

  Odette Annable
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Me

• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  • World
  • Best
  • System

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• I don't think successful musicians were really put on this planet in order to have a great time, pat themselves on the back and say, 'Oh, what a clever boy I am!' I think that, like most artists, we were put on the planet to suffer just a little. And we do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Boy

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Lens

• You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Happy
  • Act
  • Be Happy

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Intensity

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Women
  • Power
  • Political

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Age
  • Best

• I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Interested
  • Beliefs
  • Forcing

• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Weed

• There are at least five activities that must be kept in balance through proper time management. This is not easy for a busy executive with significant responsibilities, especially in this world of “information overload.” These five activities are: the job, physical fitness, personal time alone, recreation, and social relationships. Also, if they apply, two others—religion and family. If any of these get out of balance, then life gets out of balance. From my own personal experience and observation of others, being a workaholic is the most common area of imbalance...

  

  Hal Moore
  • Job
  • Balance
  • Management

• I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Think
  • Way
  • Thought

• Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Suffers
  • Punishments
  • Trifle

• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Christian
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• The third rule underscores the Japanese proverb that adversity makes a jewel of you.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Rule
  • Adversity
  • Jewel