Pat Riley Quotes

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

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• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Treat

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Crime

• Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Man
  • Quality

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Life
  • Death
  • Give

• I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Always
  • Eat
  • Watching

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Prosperity
  • Measure
  • Bear

• 'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Hope
  • Suffering

• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Computers

• There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Light
  • Lovely

• In truth, I've never been a big superhero fan. I don't mind some of the movies, and a couple of the cartoons were alright - that Batman series from the early nineties where Mark Hamill voiced the Joker is sweetness. But largely, I've not really had much time for superheroes.

  

  Ben Peek
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Truth

• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Mind
  • Profound
  • Strength