Anthony Douglas Williams (A.D. Williams) Quotes

The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.

Anthony Douglas Williams

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• As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Influence
  • Skin
  • Disappointed

• My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Stop

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • You
  • Courage
  • Kiss

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Dirty

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• There are times, you know, it's said in the Spiritual Tradition, just a glimpse at an enlightened personage can convey immense information at the sub-conscious level that sprouts later, that we don't even know.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Know
  • Spiritual
  • Information

• Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.

  

  J. Milton Hayes
  • Idea
  • Everyone
  • India

• I'm tired now of the elections.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Tired
  • Now
  • Elections

• I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Together
  • Best

• Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Doctor

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gentleman
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• Bob Mathias was one of those rare individuals with the ability to inspire a nation through his determination and perseverance. He was a champion in every aspect of life, and he embraced the values that make our country and the worldwide Olympic movement special.

  

  Peter Ueberroth
  • Country
  • Values
  • Individual

• Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Past
  • Path
  • Company

• The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

  

  Heather Bresch
  • Confidence
  • Questions
  • Answers

• My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Family
  • Spiritual
  • Grandmother

• Beauty as a “greeting”. At the moment one comes into the presence of something beautiful, it greets you. It lifts away from the neutral background as though coming forward to welcome you – as thought the object were designated to “fit” your perception.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Beauty
  • Perception
  • Welcome

• The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Succeed
  • Determination
  • Come