John Petrucci (John Peter Petrucci) Quotes
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
-
I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
-
I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
-
I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
-
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
-
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
-
Anyone who knows me well will tell you that arrogance is one of my flaws.
-
I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
-
I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
-
I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
-
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
-
I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
-
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
-
Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.
-
I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
-
If ballots won't work, bullets will.
-
I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
-
You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.
-
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
-
When I was filming, I imagined that Legolas was a meditative character who was very thoughtful and had a certain amount of depth to him. I started working on trying to find this focus that Legolas has, which wasn't really like me.
-
Now, I love playing moms who can't hide their paranoia.
-
I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
-
It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.
-
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
