Quotes about role

Willem Dafoe -

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.

A. J. Liebling -

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.

Jerrold Nadler -

It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.

Simona Panova - Nightmarish Sacrifice

I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.

Faisal Nawaz Maitlo -

A man limits his abilities himself according to his created interest, and then he pays very little attention to unliked things. Understand that man can become whatever he wants to be, just “Interest and Want“ play the role.

A.D. Posey -

Want a role? Fuck a screenwriter.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!

Chirag Tulsiani -

There are people we meet who have but little roles to play in our lives, who happen to be no more than a special appearance to our story.People, who influence, who possess the drift, the force whose implication leads us forward in our course of life. We might have never come across them until today and probably not hear from them tomorrow or ever after, for all that exists is this moment, a moment enough for them to fulfil their purpose that being to help us find our way and enough for us to ful

Steven Weinberg -

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that—in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and lov

Santosh Avvannavar - in many ways...

Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding its significance. We yet times need to value and de-value to understand and appreciate significance of several things.

Andy Warhol - A Retrospective

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would be too much. Besides, no person is every completely right for any part, because part in a role is never real, so if you can't get someone who's perfectly right, it's more satisfying to get someone who's perfectly wrong. Then you know you've really got something.

Elizabeth Carlton - The Royal Rogue

You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.

Steven Kotler - and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live an

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repetitive stories we tell about it, with fresh eyes. Come Monday morning, we may still clamber back into the monkey suits of our everyday roles—parent, spouse, employee, boss, neighbor—but, by then, we know they're just costumes with zippers.

Kristina Halvorson - Content Strategy for the Web

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who's often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If I’m surprised at where I’m at, it’s probably because I’m not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I’ve listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed.

Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr. Quin

You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably.

Sunday Adelaja -

To be a role model of the kingdom priority is for your lifestyle to speak it

Goals Rider -

Sometimes the people that push you to work hard, Won't be there in the time of harvest. Such is life. Everyone you meet has a role to play in your life.. Just play along & Believe in yourself.

Tadao Ando -

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Ephraim Mirvis -

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Jimmy Chamberlin -

I feel really good in the teacher role.

Jean Dujardin -

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Taylor Swift -

Faith Hill is a big role model.

Dieter Rams -

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Helen Clark -

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Alan Autry -

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

Jenny Shipley -

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Vivienne Westwood -

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Vin Diesel -

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

Gloria Steinem -

I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.

Simone Weil -

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Sebastian Thrun -

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

Teri Polo -

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

Paul Ryan -

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Winona Ryder -

Usually, the roles that you get offered that are the mom roles are very much the mom role.

Larry Ellison -

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

Roy Moore -

And government's only role is to secure our rights for us.

Ron White -

I've got a role in the new Billy Bob Thornton movie that Billy Bob wrote and is going to direct called 'Jayne Mansfield's Car.' I only have four scenes, but I have as much dialogue as anybody in the movie.

Zach Anner -

When I was five years old, I auditioned for the role of 'Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol.'

Harry Melling -

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Leland Orser -

My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'

Timothy Murphy -

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Sunday Adelaja -

We turn our attention to the government and we whine about the incompetence of the police, we also complain about the breakdown in law and order. Yet, we forget that we actually had a role to play in the consequences we are reaping.

Deyth Banger -

Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!

Vera Wang -

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Deyth Banger -

To be poetic is how u get somebody as a girl around you..."Dexter: You seem uncertain. It's uncomfortable, isn't it? Just when you think you've answered all the questions, another one smacks you in the face. Life, life, life. Life is just like that. Which is why I prefer death."But in the end some people play well their role others can't play it.

Seann William Scott -

My role model is my dad.

Lynn Nottage -

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Gwyneth Paltrow -

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

Cathy Warner Weatherford -

What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.

Baltasar Gracian -

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

Harry S. Truman -

I studied the lives of great men and famous women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.

Jeanette Winterson -

It's true that heroes are inspiring but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Ann Richards -

I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Tyron Edwards -

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Hilde Bigelow -

My heart is happy my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

Rachel Carson -

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Beata Rank -

Examine the personality of the mother who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.

Abraham Lincoln -

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Charles H. Fowler -

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Francesco Guicciardini -

As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Mark Twain -

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.

Plutarch -

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Oliver Goldsmith -

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Ernest Hemingway -

As you get older it is harder to have heroes but it is sort of necessary.

Paul D. Shafer -

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Ben Johnson -

Very few men are wise by their own counsel or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

B. C. Forbes -

Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful business giants and ... you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.

Bernard Malamud -

Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

Catherine Aird -

If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Anonymous -

A good example is the best sermon.

Carolyn Coats -

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Ayn Rand -

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine -

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

Christian Bovee -

Example has more followers than reason.

Henry Miller -

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

Edmund Burke -

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

Albert Schweitzer -

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Maria Mitchell -

We travel to learn and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it think some thoughts better than we think catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

B. C. Forbes -

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation by actual experience in the school of life by ceaseless alertness to learn from others by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects by constant study of human nature.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

Sophia Loren -

When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.

Alice Walker -

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld -

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Agnes Meyer -

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Mother Teresa -

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Benjamin Franklin -

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Mary Parker Follett -

Imitation is for shirkers like-minded-ness for the comfort lovers unifying for the creators.

William James -

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Elizabeth Smart -

Go to the ant thou sluggard learn to live and by her busy ways reform thy own.

Oliver Wendell Holmes -

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Eric Hoffer -

When people are free to do as they please they usually imitate each other.

Cicely Tyson -

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

J. C. F. von Schiller -

Emulation is a noble and just passion full of appreciation.

Honore de Balzac -

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions envy is only moved to malice.

Ben Johnson -

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Henry S. Haskins -

Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.

Samuel Johnson -

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.