Wes Jackson Quotes

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

Wes Jackson

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Money
  • Sports
  • motivation

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Enough
  • Rules
  • Often

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• Sometimes when you fail, it allows you the opportunity to grow more motivation and get more intense about your training.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Opportunity
  • Training
  • motivation

• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I have died in enough TV and films.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Enough
  • Films
  • TV

• Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • Possible

• I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Night

• Throughout the day, I'm always thinking about 500, the team, and how we can do things harder/better/faster/stronger.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • Thinking
  • Team

• I think it[3D] should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is - you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• How could I resist? Look, I love that record and have nothing but great, great memories of my time with BLACK SABBATH . Tony was really busy but got his solos to me at the last minute as he promised and they are just fantastic. I think BLACK SABBATH fans will be over the moon when they hear what he's done. As for Roger and Ian , well, they just sound great on this song so it really did become 'Black Purple'. Personally, I love the irony of it all.

  

  Ian Gillan
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Song

• What no one tells you - or maybe they did tell me, and I chose not to listen - is that there's really no 'coming back' from bleached platinum hair. You sort of have to cut it all off and start over.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Hair

• I'm an actor; I'm not a director.

  

  Max von Sydow

• People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

  

  Danielle Steel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • motivation