Avery Johnson Quotes

I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.

Avery Johnson

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Opportunities

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Long
  • Love
  • Fun

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Bad
  • Chance

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius

• Only silence perfects silence.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Silence
  • Only

• There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Learning
  • Football
  • Wise

• Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Why
  • Want
  • Ignorance

• Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Money
  • Trust

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Giving

• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Career
  • Practice

• No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art
  • Nature

• Jerry Cantrell Missing Lost Friend, Moving On With Trip. MTV News (July 1, 2002).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Moving

• Descend, descend, Urania, speak To men in their own tongue! Leave not the breaking heart to break Because thine own is strong. This is the law, in dream and deed, That heaven must walk on earth! O, shine upon the humble creed That holds the heavenly birth.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Dream

• When I say what I say it’s because what I say has overcome me.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Mother
  • Style
  • Violence

• It's better to get out before you reach the sell-by date.

  

  Prince Philip

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult.

  

  David Ige
  • Focus
  • Management

• I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Life
  • Commitment
  • Areas