Chris Brogan Quotes

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

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• Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Guy

• I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Home
  • Stress
  • Natural

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • See
  • Loving

• Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Me
  • Purpose
  • Successful

• T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Work
  • Question

• I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question
  • Slavery
  • Clay

• Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Fix
  • They Say

• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Key
  • Life Is A

• I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Want
  • Day
  • Hours

• There are some who call Yiddish a dead language, but so was Hebrew called for two thousand years. It has been revived in our time in a most remarkable, almost miraculous way. Aramaic was certainly a dead language for centuries but then it brought to light the Zohar, a work of mysticism of sublime value.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Light

• I loafe and invite my soul.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul

• 'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sea

• Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trying

• If you decide you want to change your life around, it doesn't matter where you came from, what you did, if you were incarcerated or you are from the projects, if you are an uppity kid who came from a really wealthy family - and all of them do drugs and are into that life - it doesn't matter; come as you are, and God does his work.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• 90 percent of the records I make are spontaneous.

  

  Diplo

• It takes tremendous will to compete in any athletic endeavor, so it meant going to bed early and getting my homework done in advance. I had to sacrifice things, like a social life, to be a skater at 15. But I loved skating so much that it was worth everything to me.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Done
  • Sacrifice

• I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Batman

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• 'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • People
  • Time

• Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

  

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