Debra Monroe Quotes

The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see how someone else managed, defying odds.

Debra Monroe

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Great
  • Style
  • Moss

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • High
  • Quality

• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy

• The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Beauty? What's that?

  

  Larry Wall

• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a horrendous golfer, though I do enjoy it.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Enjoy
  • Golfer
  • Horrendous

• I learned a lot just watching people perform.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People

• You ask every conceivable question after Sept. 11 in terms of what more could have been done, what could have been done differently. My impression from working on these cases and investigations for almost nine years was that an awful lot of people were working over time to connect dots.

  

  Mary Jo White
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I like The Smiths - I would love to do a song with The Smiths, because they are so sonically different.

  

  Angel Haze
  • Different
  • Song

• I think the ongoing discussion of the world of advertising is, 'Where is the soul in advertising?'

  

  John Slattery
  • World
  • Soul

• It's like you take these great actors and put them in an aquarium of life and just watch them swim. That's what makes editing tough because you get all these beautiful, unplanned moments.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Life
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• What Clint Eastwood meant was when you are directing and starring in a film, there's a temptation to spend more time on the other actors' performances, and then when you get to your own work, you kind of go, "Oh, yeah, well, let's cut that." And he said, "Take your time and make sure you do your work right." It's especially good advice if you're going from one career to another.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Film
  • Advice
  • Cutting

• You come to the sobering realization that things will never stop from keep happening constantly.

  

  Andrew Hussie
  • Things
  • Happening
  • Constantly

• The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see how someone else managed, defying odds.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Advice
  • Happening
  • Odds