Ryan Tedder Quotes

I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

Ryan Tedder OneRepublic

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• Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Nature
  • Body
  • Gym

• I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Catholic

• Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • People
  • Water
  • Architecture

• There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

  

  Xavi
  • Space
  • Play
  • Looking

• You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Like
  • Point

• I like to look at the glass half full.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Like
  • Look
  • Glass

• I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Percent

• Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Different
  • Question
  • Sex

• I think I'll die underrated, but it's alright, man.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Think
  • Man
  • Die

• With 'Kids React,' it started, hilariously enough, by thinking, 'Why, teenage girls seem to love 'Twilight' so much!' We went from wanting to ask them ourselves to coming up with the larger and more universal concept of a bunch of Kids reacting to viral videos.

  

  Rafi Fine
  • Girls
  • Concept
  • Universal

• And his money he cannot eat.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money

• We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own interests... I profess I could never satisfy myself on the justness of this war, but from the authority of the parliament to maintain itself in its rights; and in this cause I hope to prove myself an honest man and single-hearted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • War
  • Hope

• Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature

• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.'

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Earth
  • Lies
  • Intelligent

• It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • May
  • Team
  • Perception

• My mom is an excellent mom. She knows I am irascible, prickly, and antisocial. She knows that most human interaction makes me tired and that I either scare people away with precise invectives or trot out the fakest, nicest skinjob of myself because it requires zero effort.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • People
  • She
  • Mom

• We are not forbidden to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Love
  • Friends

• In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?

  

  C.D. Innes
  • Art
  • Hand
  • Progress

• I would rather put out two year-defining songs a year than flood the market with eight or nine songs.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic