J.S. Riley Quotes

O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.

Never be ready to play yesterday. Being ready to play today is what's important

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?!

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

The true warrior understands and seizes that moment by giving an effort so intense and so intuitive that it could only be called one from the heart.

Life changes so quickly. feeling grateful to be around such wonderful people to strengthen and grow with.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

I am so girly. I love dresses.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

No rebounds, no rings.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

Great players crave instruction on their weaknesses.

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.

People who create 20% of the results will begin believing they deserve 80% of the rewards.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.

There is no such thing as life in-between.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Discipline is not a nasty word.

I've learned to keep things simple. Look at your choices, pick the best one, then go to work with all your heart.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.

I would literally do anything for Richard Curtis. Anything.

In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

Basketball is a business. Pure and simple. If you want to have fun, go to the YMCA.

Basketball is a game of conditioning and fatigue. That's why I believe in practicing a team to train when it's exhausted.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics game.

We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.

Whatever it takes to win.

When you face a fork in the road, step on the exhilarator!

Complacency is the last hurdle standing between any team and its potential greatness.

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.

In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.