Georges St-Pierre Quotes

Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

Georges St-Pierre

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• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Project

• When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Wanted
  • Short
  • Tall

• Everyone is always working on their body and trying to make it the best that they possibly can. That's what I do every single day, mostly for performance, but also just for me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Single

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Feel
  • Seriously

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • America
  • Color

• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Unhappy

• The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.

  

  Alan Bean
  • Good
  • Children
  • Trying

• If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things.5

  

  Lee Hsien Loong
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I loved Tristan in Nancy Collins' run. I love Vampirella having a werewolf paramour; it's too fun. Coleridge had to come with them, of course, to set up her spooky new manor up in the hills of Los Angeles, and also because he's just a delight.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • Fun

• I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Money

• I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Rejection should ignite soul-searching, and the soul-searching must be absolutely honest.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Soul
  • Rejection

• I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • American
  • Imagination

• My whole being and approach to work is shaped by Karan Johar. From him, I have learned that people should love to work with you, and you should give out warmth and energy to them.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • People
  • Work
  • Energy

• The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Light

• I think that it will be a great success, that all this painting of Edouard Manet, shortly after his death, so fresh, so vital, will electrify the 'Palais des Beaux Arts' in Paris, which is accustomed to dead art. It will be the revenge for so many rebuffs, but a revenge that the poor boy only in his grave.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Great
  • Art
  • Death

• ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • World
  • Mind
  • Light

• Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Success
  • Beginning
  • Genesis