Warren Gatland Quotes

I get on well with people and I have really good relationships with the other coaches around me. I don't know everything about the games and I'm still learning all the time, so it's important to have an open mind.

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• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Money
  • Pride

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Same
  • Equal
  • Soil

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Wise
  • Show

• You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • People
  • History
  • Death

• Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Character
  • Funny
  • Voice

• People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Long
  • Challenge

• The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Great
  • Design

• My mom is in her mid-60s and has more energy and is more youthful than any human being I know. It's pretty incredible.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Know

• I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Woman
  • Old
  • Diet

• In the eight years since his father’s death, Patrick’s youth had slipped away without being replaced by any signs of maturity, unless the tendency for sadness and exhaustion to eclipse hatred and insanity could be called ‘mature’.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Father
  • Death
  • Maturity

• I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

  

  Rick Boucher
  • Washington
  • Computers
  • Actually

• In the not-for-profit world, I never felt that being female was an impediment. I was, however, given my break into commercial theatre by a female producer, Judy Craymer, and women - in particular, Donna Langley, president of production at Universal - were crucial in giving 'Mamma Mia' a home in Hollywood.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • World
  • Women
  • Home

• In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Real
  • Want
  • Team

• I get on well with people and I have really good relationships with the other coaches around me. I don't know everything about the games and I'm still learning all the time, so it's important to have an open mind.

  

  Warren Gatland
  • Learning
  • Relationships
  • Coaches