Ashton Eaton Quotes

We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

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• Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Work
  • Great
  • Respectful

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Sports

• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Death
  • Sin
  • Glory

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Indifference
  • Neglect

• I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jail

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

  

  Vanity
  • Time
  • Crying
  • Vanity

• Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Company
  • Values
  • Only

• This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Important
  • Why
  • Small

• While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great

• I can't do it, and as for you Can you in good conscience even ask me to? 'Cause what do you care about the great divide As long as you come down on the winner's side?

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Good
  • Great
  • Long

• Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Simple
  • Army

• I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Happy
  • Amazing

• Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • Music
  • Home
  • Friends

• I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

  

  Jodelle Ferland
  • Long
  • Fun

• Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Game

• In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Why
  • Confidence

• People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don't care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it's like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Caring

• Sir, the year growing ancient, Not yet on summer's death nor on the birth Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season Are our carnations and streaked gillyvors, Which some call nature's bastards.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Summer
  • Flower
  • Winter

• The Miami Heat floor is great, but a lot of them are not.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Great

• We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

  

  Ashton Eaton