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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Time
  • Job

• I grew up on a farm and didn't have connections, and I had a dream that I believed in, and I felt passionate about it, so if I can instill hope into somebody too with the film, that's what I most want.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Dream

• Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Words

• If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

  

  Frank Moore Colby
  • City

• The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Goals
  • Management
  • FCC

• I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

  

  Alan Ritchson
  • Priority

• My priority is to repeal the Iran Nuclear Deal and vote to do that. I think it's extremely dangerous... you don't negotiate with terrorists.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Priority

• Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.

  

  James Frain
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

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

  

  Edwin A. Locke
  • Priority
  • Flaws
  • Fixing