Robert M. Parker, Jr. Quotes

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 23, 1947

Topics

DoingWorthAlwaysAnythingRule

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can 'be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough' are not true. They are fairy tales.

Jocko Willink

StrengthTalentPeopleWorldEnough

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

GreatEveningYouGoWantBecause

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Andre Maurois

AppreciateOthersUsWhoLikeThose

I was a nerdy student.

Maye Musk

StudentNerdy

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

Michael Douglas

PeopleRememberYouStrangersPerson

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

MomentImproveCatchFliesHour

You can heal your body with food.

Stacy Keibler

FoodYouBodyYour BodyYourHeal

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

Louis Finkelstein

GodChildrenPeopleParentDespair

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PeoplePerformanceYouMatterWhere

I endured many weeks of it, but I had a big background in martial arts and fighting as a kid, so kind of all the problems got brushed away and I was ready.

Jason Statham

ProblemsFightingReadyKindKid

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

YourselfDareRiskPretendingAbout

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Deepak Chopra

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