George Elliott Clarke Quotes

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

George Elliott Clarke

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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Change
  • Ideas

• It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. I want to beat everybody's time.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Team

• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Ideas

• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Movies

• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • School
  • History
  • Football

• Somewhere on the other side of this wide nightand the distance between us, I am thinking of you.The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Thinking
  • Moon
  • Distance

• 'I am the one who stood beside you and smiled,Thinking your face so strangely young . . . 'I am the one who loved you but did not dare.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Thinking

• I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Live

• Anytime I stepped out on the red carpet in anything pink, I don't know what I was thinking.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Thinking
  • Red
  • Pink

• The world will try to make you think that being good is outdated and old-fashioned and that popularity comes from breaking the rules and lowering your standards. Don't buy into that way of thinking. As you watch TV or read magazines, you might be made to feel abnormal when, really, you are the one who has it figured out.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • World
  • Good
  • Thinking

• At the end of the day, you have smart marks all over the world thinking that they know the outcome of a match.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Smart

• You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • War

• Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Party

• I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Funny

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• It's a sad state when more people retweet than buy records.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Sad
  • Records

• During my time as a political strategist, one of the most vexing problems was figuring out why so many people vote against their perceived interests.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Control
  • Director
  • Human Beings

• I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

  

  George Elliott Clarke
  • Thinking
  • Sports
  • Remains