I watch something in the gym, try to do it and may not get it. When I go home that night and my wife is talking to me and I’m not answering her, it is because I’m visualizing that thing I’m working on. I’ll do that all day long. Before I go to bed I’m still thinking about it, and that happens until I can see myself doing it. Chris Weidman Read Quote
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central Africa; I didn’t make a phone call for two years. I was in Uganda for another four years and I didn’t make a phone call. So for six years I didn’t make a phone call, but I wrote letters, I wrote short stories, I wrote books. Paul Theroux Read Quote
One of the reasons why I created the podcast called the ‘The Call-In’ that we do through Array – because as a black artist, every time I sit down with mainstream media, I’m asked about issues of race, identity and culture. No one asked what they ask my white male counterparts, which is: ‘Where do you like to put the camera?’ Ava DuVernay Read Quote
When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red. Michael Schumacher Read Quote
You had Cash Money: that was just the flashy dudes. Like I said, you had different genres of rap, and we were just one of them. So that’s how we fit in. What makes it all confusing – and this is where it’s the gift and the curse – we never set out for hip-hop to turn into just something flashy. That was just our thing. It wasn’t everybody’s thing. Mannie Fresh Read Quote
Basically if you burst into my office the walls themselves will flutter as if alive – maybe that’s the reason for all the wings in ‘Pure.’ Julianna Baggott Read Quote
I’m going to die one day. I know it’s coming for me, too. I’ll be a mountain, I’ll be a stone on the beach. I’ll be nourishment. Mary Oliver Read Quote
I didn’t like the way I shot the ball in Milwaukee, so I worked really hard on my shooting – threes off the move and off the catch. And also continued to work on my ball-handling and my in-between game – my runners and floaters. J. J. Redick Read Quote
I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity. Peter Dinklage Read Quote