Cilla Black Quotes

I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.'

Cilla Black

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 27, 1943 - August 1, 2015

Topics

SuccessPeopleLooking BackLooking

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

Jerry Weintraub

GreatLuckDirectorsHadWorked

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

Toni Collette

LoveProblemWorkingKidsThem

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

Roger Ver

BeautyFreeWantAlwaysSizeMarket

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Roxane Gay

CriticsVoicesUseCulturalHelped

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

Mary Badham

PeopleThinkBetterReachTryMore

We're moving from a centralized understanding of the world to a decentralized understanding of the world.

Mike Cernovich

MovingWorldUnderstanding

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

Lord John Russell

ImpossibleVoiceNationPrevail

If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.

Joshua Foer

MemoriesTimeBestMemoryHelpYou

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Jonathan Larson

PeaceWarCreationOpposite

Maybe I was accepted to Harvard only because of my tennis skills, since I definitively had no great academic achievements. I was 17 and only thought about surfing and playing tennis. I had almost never left Rio de Janeiro and had never been to the United States.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

GreatThoughtSkillsNeverTennis

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

Dennis Eckersley

YouImportantWantMoreHardOut

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

Clint Eastwood

DoubtYouAfraidOutTakeGet

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Cilla Black