Lou Holtz Quotes

Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz

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• 'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Grace
  • Shot
  • Even

• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Touch

• Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

  

  Imelda May
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Age

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Justice
  • Democracy
  • Economy

• The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

  

  Quintilian
  • Idea
  • Right
  • Misery

• For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Birthday

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Hustle

• I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Life
  • Together
  • Food

• There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

  

  Gary Ross
  • You
  • Know
  • Nothing

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

• I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Company
  • Started
  • Then

• For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Film
  • Form

• Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Colors

• I had a basketball net that my dad had put up outside. I went out there and dribbled all day long. I wanted to play basketball. Then I'd go baseball, and then I'd go to football. I remember playing football in a plowed field. I grew up going from one thing to the next wanting to play something.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Against the wall, near the head of the bunk, was a rack filled with books. I glanced over them, noting with astonishment such names as Shakespeare, Tennyson, Poe, and De Quincey. There were scientific works too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.

  

  Jack London
  • Men
  • Wall

• Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Country
  • Growth
  • Gold

• Well tonight I'm gonna live for today, so come along for the ride,I hope I'm old before I die.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Today

• Underconfidence breeds underachievement. Lou Holtz

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Underconfidence