Overprepare Quotes

#1. I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare.

Roger Goodell

#2. For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

Sarah Dessen

#3. I don't feel any connection to Russia.

Anton Yelchin

#4. Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art.

Penelope Cruz

#5. The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

David Pajo

#6. Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

Russell Baker

#7. When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position to make a mistake.

Roland Martin

#8. I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

Giles Duley

#9. Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.

Mark Haddon

#10. When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

Paddy Considine

#11. I've started the John Ritter Foundation for Aortic Health. The big focus is helping people get the correct diagnoses.

Amy Yasbeck

#12. The bonds that unite us to another human being are sanctified when he or she adopts the same point of view as ourselves in judging one of our imperfections.

Marcel Proust

#13. The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.

Tom Lehrer

#14. Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#15. Love what you do!

Lailah Gifty Akita