Chris Prentiss Quotes

Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

Chris Prentiss

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• We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Power
  • Help
  • Eye

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Drama
  • Understand
  • Eagles

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Fear
  • Perfection
  • No Fear

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Story
  • Indian

• Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Love
  • Romantic

• In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom - one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Women
  • Power
  • Freedom

• We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Lot

• Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Myself
  • Mistakes
  • Learned

• I started skating when I was six years old.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Years
  • Old
  • Skating

• The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • School
  • May

• You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Die

• The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People

• I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • True
  • Help

• I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • Believe

• 'At least we can put a little sense into life.''I don’t know whether we do or whether we find what was always there,' he replied. 'Nor do I care greatly. To me, the important thing is that the purpose-order, beauty, spirit, whatever you want to call it-does exist.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Purpose

• Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Believe
  • Achieve
  • Seek