Chris Pine Quotes

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

Chris Pine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 26, 1980

Topics

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By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Maynard Webb

WorkGreatTimeManagementBetter

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

Jeff Koons

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One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

Tom Petty

SuccessYouRentSomethingFarLike

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

Robert Darnton

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I always thought that there was nothing an antifeminist would want more than to have women only in women's organizations, in their own little corner empathizing with each other and not touching a man's world.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

Josh Trank

LifeCreativityCreativeYouRules

Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.

Chris Wood

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We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.

Susan L. Taylor

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I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

Shania Twain

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In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.

Tim O'Brien

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Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.

Mario Lopez

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