Chris Prentiss Quotes

Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

Chris Prentiss

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• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Abroad
  • Scrutiny

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Love
  • Think
  • Difficult

• Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Huge
  • Pie
  • Slice

• We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action
  • Positive
  • Vision

• I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Baseball
  • Born
  • I Can

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Different
  • Need
  • Own

• I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Think
  • Better
  • Evolution

• There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Like
  • Down
  • Debt

• I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Line
  • Often

• Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Leadership

• Everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World
  • Heart

• Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

  

  Frank Sinatra
  • Believe

• My day job is working on Roman history and ancient Roman history.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Job
  • History

• To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Girl
  • Search

• My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

  

  Ken Follett
  • World
  • Writing
  • War

• Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Shoes

• By the way, for the kids at home, Santa just is white, but this person is arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Black

• Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Action
  • Belief
  • Preventing