Lawrence Timmons Quotes

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Feedback

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Art
  • Business
  • Attention

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • History
  • Man
  • Winning

• Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Live
  • Innovation
  • Ancestors

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Relatives

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Myself
  • Memories

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • People
  • Music
  • Looking

• I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Patience

• I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • World
  • Great
  • Night

• I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

  

  Valerie June
  • Enjoy
  • Playing
  • Audiences

• A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.

  

  Maren Morris
  • Time

• It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Great
  • Power
  • America

• I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Great
  • Trying