Jim Valvano Quotes

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

Jim Valvano

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• If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Upset

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Stars
  • Tough

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Teenager
  • Going

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • School
  • Movie

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Doom
  • Gloom

• It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

  

  G-Eazy
  • See
  • Inspiring
  • Legends

• A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Live
  • Leader

• I really have the American dream licked.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • American
  • Dream
  • American Dream

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Better
  • Place

• You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Confidence

• Don't get involved in the interoffice politics. On 'Suits,' it can be cheeky and fun to see Rachel and Donna being gossipy, but people get caught up in that. I think in life and in the office, it's best to stay out of the drama.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

  

  Jens Voigt

• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Great
  • Nothing
  • Something

• I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

  

  Jim Valvano