Carlos Gracie, Jr. (Carlos "Carlinhos" Gracie Jr.) Quotes

There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

Carlos Gracie, Jr.

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• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Reflection

• When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Best
  • Thought
  • First

• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Age
  • Museum
  • 19th-Century

• Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Man

• My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Wind

• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Time
  • Long
  • Past

• It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.

  

  Bill Flores
  • People
  • American
  • Tired

• I support same-sex marriage.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

  

  Fred Ward
  • She
  • Assumption

• I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Sure there is a sexy attitude, and when they say, 'Give me a sexy look with your eyes,' you give it to them. It doesn't have to relate to the product. People are just drawn to it.

  

  Lisanne Falk
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Attitude

• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wish
  • Poverty
  • Littles

• Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Different
  • Think
  • Understanding

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Long
  • Free

• I had a blast doing it. I mean, I love, love, love my work as a voice over actress and I've been doing it for 15 years, but I've trained as a singer and I am a singer and this is what I've always wanted to do. To get the opportunity to marry these two things that I love so much, it's been a dream, without a doubt. I'm sort of pinching myself still.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Opportunity

• Connected with the fall of Satan is his lameness. The devil is represented in art and in legion as limping on one foot; this was occasioned by his having broken his leg in his fall.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Art
  • Fall
  • Broken

• There is no losing in Jiu-Jitsu. You either win or you learn.

  

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.
  • Art
  • Winning