Barack Obama Quotes

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

Barack Obama

• Decision
• Looks
• Made

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Listen
  • Watch

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• I would see anything by Antony Gormley.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • See
  • Anything
  • Would

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fooling yourself. Each time you switch tasks, you have to backtrack a little and remind yourself where you are in the process and what's next. Invariably. you are spending twice as much time on parts of the task.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Designer

• All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

  

  Sade Adu
  • Live
  • Me
  • Thanks

• Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • People
  • Trust
  • Never

• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Like

• If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Helps

• It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Uncomfortable

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Age
  • Pessimistic

• My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Important
  • Children

• I'm normally the least busy person I know.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Person
  • Busy

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.

  

  Nalini Singh

• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  

  Edwin Way Teale
  • Mind
  • Nature

• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  

  Norton Juster
  • Trying
  • Enthusiasm
  • Turns

• When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Song

• I would never want to live in L.A., and I made that decision years ago, so I never chose that path for myself, although I have much respect for those that do it at a high level.

  

  Matt Cameron Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • High
  • Respect

• There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Decision
  • Looks
  • Made