Colin Salmon Quotes

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

Colin Salmon

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• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Death
  • Try
  • Escape

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Knowledge
  • Years
  • Last

• My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Creativity
  • Same
  • Hat

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Good
  • Football
  • Loved

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Vision

• I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Long
  • Why
  • Remember

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Find
  • Jazz
  • Cartooning

• Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Most
  • Rather
  • Reporters

• Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • People
  • Listen
  • People Say

• I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Book
  • Disney

• We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I am not one of those writers that just does songwriting one way. Personally, I think the best song will pop out all at once, because it's this feeling that the words fit the music so cleanly. When you really have a complete thought, and you always yearn for that as a songwriter. You always work for that.

  

  Crosby Loggins
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Best

• Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

  

  Kent Nerburn
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Peace

• For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • Life