Lynn Davies Quotes

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

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• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Work
  • Power
  • Political

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Gold

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Player
  • Doubt
  • Tough

• I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Opportunities

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Violence
  • End
  • Goals

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Same
  • Entertainment
  • Apple

• People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Vote
  • Cultural

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Money
  • Wish
  • Model

• We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Up
  • Long
  • House

• Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Wall

• I never really told anybody that I'm a rapper. I wasn't walking around being like, "Yo, check out my mixtape!" It was more of a secret grind.

  

  J. Cole
  • Walking
  • Grind

• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Country
  • Family
  • High

• It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • Long
  • Perseverance