Chris Johnson Quotes

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

Chris Johnson

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• Emotional
• Difficult
• Overcoming

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• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Chinese
  • Making
  • Nobody

• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Sometimes
  • Talk
  • Tell

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

  

  Said Musa
  • Government
  • Effort
  • Growth

• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mother

• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Parents

• If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).

  

  Nancy Kress
  • May
  • Book
  • Expectations

• From the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Beginning

• Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Sleep

• Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings of modern life. They crackle with optical cockiness, love, and massive amounts of painterly mojo.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Life

• Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Red

• You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.

  

  Arielle Kebbel
  • Time
  • Strong

• The creation is a very internal process, and publishing the book is a very external process. It is nice to see the book out in the world and people having the same reaction as when I created it. The point of all art is the emotional transference, and when that happens, the book has succeeded.

  

  Elliot Ackerman
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Artist
  • Canvas
  • Product

• We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other.

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Ourselves

• Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Artist
  • Emotional
  • Difficult