Danilo Dolci Quotes

It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

Danilo Dolci

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• Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Great
  • Love
  • Service

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Hope
  • Small
  • Movies

• I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Music
  • Different
  • Football

• Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Misery

• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Know

• Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

  

  Oskar Werner
  • Movies
  • Married
  • Mistress

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Done
  • Love

• I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Philosophy

• Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Wants
  • Got

• I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • She
  • Mom
  • Acting

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Vegas
  • Lake

• When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

  

  Bill Parcells
  • Coaching

• Basketball is so unique. It's both a team and an individual sport.

  

  Adam Silver
  • Team
  • Unique
  • Basketball

• The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

  

  Molly Crabapple
  • Writing
  • Sadness
  • Nicholas

• Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

  

  Andrea Arnold

• No one could have prepared for me BBQ on pizza. I mean, both are great. But together? It was incredible.

  

  Pau Gasol
  • Great
  • Together
  • Pizza

• It's important to know that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains.

  

  Danilo Dolci
  • Work
  • Important
  • Action