Lleyton Hewitt Quotes

I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Character

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Age
  • Me
  • Mom

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
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  • Olympics

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• I've just tried to grow up in the most natural and gradual process that I possibly can and make choices I feel are right for me and my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Choices
  • Feel
  • Right

• People would pay money to work at CNN.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • You
  • Without

• A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Players
  • Played
  • Away

• I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.

  

  Kevin Macdonald
  • America
  • Culture

• When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.

  

  John Philpot Curran

• That’s the way it is with our Father in Heaven. When you became a son or a daughter, when you were adopted into His family, He opened up for you through His Son’s death on the cross a way of fellowship and relationship that makes it possible for you to bypass the temple and its animal sacrifices. You don’t have to talk to God through a priest. You can go right into the presence of God Almighty and He will hear you.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Up
  • God
  • Family

• I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
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