John Popper Quotes

There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

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• I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Art
  • Reality

• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Energy
  • Light

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • English
  • Minds
  • Scottish

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Love
  • Alone
  • Friendship

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Food
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • Pressure

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Reality
  • Energy

• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Issues
  • Had
  • Teens

• Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Yourself
  • Seeing

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Career
  • Way
  • Fairly

• If you listen to the first, second, and third chorus of a song, they don't sound the same. It's the same melody and all that, but what really happens is that the energy changes. It's all about getting the listener to keep his or her concentration.

  

  Max Martin
  • Song
  • Energy

• Chris Evans has embodied Captain America as well as any actor has ever embodied an iconic pop-culture figure like that. I go back to Chris Reeve as Superman as the gold standard, and I think Evans is right there.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • America
  • Culture
  • Gold

• I get this thing where people are like, 'Man, you got to tell me what to do' - like I have a cheat code to being successful. It's hard work; it's trial and error. I failed, but I never let failure get to my head or to my heart.

  

  Karen Civil
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Decided
  • Case
  • Supreme

• There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

  

  John Popper
  • Trying
  • Failure