Calvin Johnson Quotes

Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Active
  • Worse

• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Details

• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • American
  • Me
  • English

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• I want the single player experience.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Single

• In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Process
  • Films

• When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Training

• I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat, because it's more fun to play.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Like

• We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Understand
  • Innovation
  • Top

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• Excellent warriors are not violent.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Warriors
  • Not Violent

• When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Moral

• Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Sometimes

• Honestly, the America of my childhood I'm not convinced is available anymore to my own children, and that is a significant motivation to want to go out and do something better for them and rest of my neighbors in Colorado.

  

  George Brauchler
  • Children
  • America
  • Rest

• All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Family
  • motivation
  • Boss

• Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Week
  • motivation
  • Sunday