Ashton Eaton Quotes
From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.
Quotes to Explore
-
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
-
You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
-
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
-
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
-
I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
-
I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
-
This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
-
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
-
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
-
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
-
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
-
I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
-
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
-
Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
-
I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
-
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation.
-
I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
-
I've been lucky enough to have flown some very interesting aircraft in the past, but SpaceShipTwo is far and away the most exciting of them all.
-
What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
-
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
-
I don't really watch a lot of TV, but I do watch 'Adventure Time', 'The Amazing World of Gumball', and 'Looney Tunes' and old classic cartoons.
-
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
-
From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.
