Danny Gokey Quotes

I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

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• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • World
  • Rest
  • Artist

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Me
  • Door

• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • School
  • Education
  • Door

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Car
  • Door

• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Career
  • Independent
  • Blessed

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Rest

• My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Door
  • Grandmother
  • Security System

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Good
  • Country

• I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Today
  • Career
  • Hate

• When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • School
  • Home

• The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Men
  • Same

• I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Design

• If you look at the top 100 players, you would see that the great majority of them have had at least a couple of surgeries. That tells me that we have to protect the players.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Great
  • Couple

• Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Community
  • Class

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I needed to walk through the 'Idol' door to get to the rest of my career.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • Career
  • Rest
  • Door