Bill T. Jones Quotes
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.Bill T. Jones
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot -
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra -
I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
Karen Fairchild Little Big Town -
Any competent actor could have done what I did.
Larry Hovis -
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
Karin Slaughter -
I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
Jack Canfield -
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo -
Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali -
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert -
My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
Vern Buchanan -
I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
Magnus Carlsen
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
Eberhard Weber -
If the part isn't always there on the page, I've had good relationships with writers where there's an openness to bring more to the role.
Felicity Jones -
I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
Patrick Dempsey -
Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
Adam Davidson -
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell -
The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
Ellen McLaughlin
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Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
Hassan Nasrallah -
I'm going to make an appearance in professional wrestling, but it won't be for the WWE. If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time - and I'm going to - it's going to be done by me and me only.
Bill Goldberg -
I actually like and love Chevy Chase.
Jay Chandrasekhar -
You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.
Amy Klobuchar -
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
Will Durant -
Art - when it is really doing what it should do - teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.
Bill T. Jones