Chris Weidman Quotes

When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

Chris Weidman

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• Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Better
  • Peaceful

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • World
  • Good
  • Reality

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Easy

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical profession, to ensure our educators have the training and knowledge to succeed in their classrooms and in their careers.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Knowledge
  • Training
  • Medical

• The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Past
  • Opportunity
  • Team

• People say, 'Oh, to be the daughter of Picasso!' But it's not as extravagant as it seems. He was very special, very vibrant, but he was my father. I didn't have another.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • People
  • Father
  • Daughter

• …jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • America
  • Wind

• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Children
  • Family
  • Ambition

• I think, often with Australian films, if an Australian film has been given the seal of approval by an offshore festival or an offshore release, then it does mean a lot to a local audience.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• There is nothing more American than acknowledging that even if we don't agree politically, even if we don't agree with the president, even if we don't like each other, all of us have the same rights.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • American

• Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • School

• I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Experience

• I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

  

  Chi McBride
  • People
  • Funny

• I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Desire
  • Lies
  • Books

• When I was little, I carried a book of times tables around everywhere and always tried to get the best score. I like the fact that you don't need any tools, only your head. I also enjoy rules and, with maths, you are either right or wrong.

  

  Rachel Riley
  • Rules
  • Around
  • Tables

• One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Brain

• When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

  

  Chris Weidman
  • Focus
  • Brain
  • Persons