Edwin A. Locke Quotes

If you have some moral flaws that need fixing, make it a priority to correct them.

Edwin A. Locke

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• Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Play
  • Mean
  • Guitar

• Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Confused

• I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn't see a clearer picture: what's the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Picture
  • Dying

• If colleges and universities are really concerned about women's rights, then they must adjust to a far more flexible structure to allow young women students to take leaves of absence if they want to have children early.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Want

• I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Science
  • Scientist
  • Continue

• In 'Manithan' I did not again play a bubbly thing, but my character was calm and composed.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Play
  • Calm

• In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Dress
  • Burned
  • Casual

• All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Learn

• Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Want
  • You
  • Regardless

• 'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Reading

• The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • American
  • Political
  • Organization

• A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Real
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • People

• We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.

  

  Jason Wu

• We went to a very small high school. It was, like, in a wooded house; it was a weird school. I hung out with a lot of guys in high school, and I did theater with a few of my close girlfriends.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • School
  • High
  • House

• Honestly, I think it's kind of corny to sit and watch your own work.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Work

• And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Time

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Game
  • Effort

• If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Priority

• We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Flaws

• Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Thinking
  • Camera
  • Meet

• If you have some moral flaws that need fixing, make it a priority to correct them.

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Priority
  • Flaws
  • Fixing