Roger Federer Quotes

I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

Roger Federer

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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Truth
  • Ideas
  • Memories

• I have never sought the reason why I write.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Never

• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Wrong
  • Documentary

• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Way
  • Emotional

• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
  • Well
  • Bath

• I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Child
  • Acting

• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • World
  • Earth
  • Best

• What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • High
  • Worry
  • motivation

• I did some years of therapy and self-realization, and I just move and think at a slower pace - doesn't make me sound very smart! But really not reacting and doing more listening than talking, and letting people say what they need to say, and then maybe not saying anything at all.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • Think
  • Listening

• Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Feelings

• Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Life
  • Design
  • Planning

• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Philosophy
  • Criticism
  • Analysis

• Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Present
  • Acting

• I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Said
  • Thing
  • Explanation

• I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

  

  Damian Barr
  • Writing
  • Story
  • Annoying

• Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Thinking
  • Should
  • Used

• The Mormon issue is a real problem in the South; it's a real problem in other parts of the country. But people are not going to say it. People are not going to step out and say, 'I have a problem with Romney because he's Mormon.' What they're going to say is he's a flip-flopper... It's a fact; it's reality.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Good
  • Heart

• When I look back at experience [with my father], all I can do is feel pity. You know, how torn he was about how to act, what to say. And it seems an important story to me.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Important
  • Father
  • Feels

• I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Pleasure
  • Used
  • Technique