Lewis Gordon Pugh Quotes

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

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• Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Real
  • Worry
  • Fight

• You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • People
  • World
  • God

• In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Produce

• Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Thought

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Fight
  • Injustice

• Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Beautiful
  • Everything
  • Able

• Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Important
  • Long
  • Question

• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • Want
  • Know

• I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Last
  • Whatever
  • Meal

• What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Today
  • Leadership

• Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.

  

  Karl Schroeder

• The big things I've had are things I bought myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Myself
  • Big
  • Big Things

• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Know
  • Secret
  • Keep

• When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

  

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton
  • Rain
  • Desert
  • Fruit

• Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • Swimming