Dan Heisman Quotes
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
Quotes to Explore
-
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
-
I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
-
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
-
Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
-
I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
-
My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
-
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
-
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
-
I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
-
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
-
As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.
-
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
-
In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
-
Life has not been boring for me.
-
The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
-
Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened its grip on us at last - that once-crushing 'weight' has become, for the most part, a memory.
-
Mrs. Robbins asked: 'If I am not for myself, who then is for me?'-and she was for herself so passionately that the other people in the world decided that they were not going to let Pamela Robbins beat them at her own game, and stopped playing.
-
And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone.
-
My parents are pretty religious, devout, but did they force it on me? No, I don't think so. I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.
-
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
-
Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.
