- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Day Quotes
Lines on routine, duty and the shape of an ordinary day.
These quotes span a wide range of daily experience: actors describing the grind of read-throughs and reshoots, and reflections on the discipline service members carry with them off duty as well as on. For more on the rhythm of daily life, see our Day-To-Day Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch basketball all day every day. So when I'm watching the games, I watch it - I just enjoy watching basketball - but when I'm watching other people play, I'm really just watching as a student trying to figure different things out.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A fanatic commits to an ideal to whatever end. A fanatic throws everything aside to pursue their idea. Take something which it would be good to be committed to, like basic human rights. You might campaign for such a thing. You might spend every day of your life pursuing such a thing. But once you become fanatical about it, anything can happen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.
- Good-Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Cameron was a good-looking chap in his day!
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a personal level, I send out about 20 thank-you notes a day to staffers, on all levels. And every six weeks I have lunch with a group of a dozen or so employees, to get their perspective on the business, to address problems and to get feedback.
- End Of The Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020