Daley Thompson Quotes

Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

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• For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • War

• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.

  

  T.I.
  • You
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Find
  • Try

• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Work
  • Different
  • Unique

• There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Music
  • Different
  • Austin

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Audience

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Different
  • You
  • Technology

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The demand in India is to have a hit, which becomes a promotion for the movie and makes people come to the theater. You have five songs and different promotions based on those. But when I do Western films, the need for originality is greater. Then I become very conscious about the writing.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Different
  • Writing

• I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Black
  • City
  • Water

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Wife

• If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • School
  • You

• I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Word
  • Greatest
  • Written

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• If I was courting the Muslim vote, I wouldn't have put establishing the partnership ceremony at the forefront of my first term, would I? I go all around London advocating lesbian and gay rights.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Gay
  • Lesbian

• Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Reality
  • Curiosity

• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Different
  • Ambition
  • Champion