S Nelson* Quotes

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

I'm the most unracist person around.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team. He stayed and fought the fight.

Capitalism is a funny name which lefties give to basic freedom.

It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity.

What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.

I stayed close to my family. My family never changed.

A lot of dreams don't come true in life. If you can make somebody's dream come true, you should.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.

That's exactly it—I am crazy sad, and somewhere deep inside, all I want is to fly.

I don't know how the heart withstands it.

According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

The Color Of Extraordinary.

I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story.

This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person.

But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?

I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way.

And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks.

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us.

If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else.

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? Like they should be awarded the Nobel Prize for a simple greeting?

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

It’s never occurred to me that the stars are still up there shining even in the daytime when we can’t see them.

If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now.I never thought i'd be where I am now, but the fact that I am is pretty cool.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

Lots of people support me and I forget. But sometimes things happen and I remember, and they say I encourage them, it makes me feel very happy.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.

You have to make sure that people are still motivated and happy and creatively challenged so that it can all be stitched together. The voice acting starts after a lot of the storyboards are done.