Colin Kaepernick Quotes

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

Colin Kaepernick

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• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Men
  • Tragedy
  • Rejection

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
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• I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Daily
  • Week
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• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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  • Places

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
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  • Accept
  • Someone

• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Up
  • Problem
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• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Enemy
  • Will
  • Worst

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Thinking
  • Love
  • Words

• I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Better

• I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
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• I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Know
  • Born
  • Appearance

• Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Learning
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Yourself
  • Movies

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.

  

  Kunal Nayyar
  • True
  • Wish
  • Star

• 'Look,' I said. 'Something that needs your attention. Over there. Away from here.'

  

  John Scalzi
  • Attention

• With marathon swimming, I think you have to use your head more than you do in pool events, which are more automatic. You can just go out and replicate your training pace in competition. With the marathon, though, you have to contend with nature, physical contact, and time.

  

  Poliana Okimoto
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Training

• Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Practice

• I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Competition