Chuck Knox Quotes

Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

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• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Church
  • Bible

• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Music
  • Play
  • Write

• I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Job
  • Game
  • Political

• I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Team
  • Mean
  • Marvel

• I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Day
  • Myself
  • Calm

• So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Different
  • Bed

• Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Doubt
  • End
  • Tree

• Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Moving
  • Down
  • Slow

• Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Today
  • Way
  • News

• We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• ...We cannot think first and act afterwards. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Action

• The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Philosophical
  • Plato

• Jadis, si je me souviens bien, ma vie était un festin où s'ouvraient tous les coeurs, où tous les vins coulaient.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns, three months of bank statements, all sorts of credit card information.

  

  John Paulson
  • Home

• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Different
  • Result
  • Using

• First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children

• I'm Brian a lot more than I'm Paul Walker, which is awesome. When I hear, 'Hey Paul Walker!' my hair stands up on the back of my neck. It's uncomfortable. But when I hear, 'It's Brian!' it's cool. I like Brian.

  

  Paul Walker
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Hair

• It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Great
  • Job
  • Age

• Winners bring reality up to their vision. Losers bring their vision down to reality.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Reality
  • Winners
  • Losers