Ashton Eaton Quotes

I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

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• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Goals
  • Sense
  • Places

• By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Optimistic

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Hand
  • Creativity
  • Anxiety

• There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Help
  • Same

• The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Reputation
  • Bureaucracy

• Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• a has-been superstar.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I fight on, I fight to win.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

  

  Win Butler
  • Music
  • Bad
  • House

• If I play hard to get, soon the phone stops ringing altogether.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Job

• I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Good

• I like regular meals and restaurants that will adapt things to your taste. Not a place where they roll their eyes if you want the sauce on the side.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Eyes

• I'm always appreciative of fans.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Failure

• May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Reverence
  • Human Condition

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• I do the whole 10-event thing, but at the end of the day, it's still track and field.

  

  Ashton Eaton