Clay Clark Quotes

To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

Clay Clark

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• The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Changed
  • Little
  • Michael

• I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Long
  • She
  • Lost

• I kind of crave loneliness.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Loneliness
  • Crave

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Add

• I resent ever being stereotyped.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Being
  • Ever
  • Resent

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Confidence
  • Flaws
  • Shake

• With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Old

• I do everything in a straightforward manner.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Everything
  • Manner

• Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Want
  • Science

• To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Care

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Want
  • Lyrics

• You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Career

• My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Different
  • She
  • Night

• There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

  

  Anna Sewell
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• Even to this day, when someone says something derogatory about Boy George, it still upsets and offends me. Part of me will always be quite attached to him.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Boy

• One thing I don't understand is that average American movie-goers cannot watch a movie for three hours, yet they'll watch a stupid, boring, horrific football game for four hours. Now, that is boredom at its most colossal.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • American
  • Movie
  • Game

• To be a proactive person, you must learn to say no to most ideas and opportunities so you have the mental and physical bandwidth to execute the realistic business plans you have already mapped out.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Business