Rick Pitino Quotes

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

Rick Pitino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 18, 1952

Topics

TalentPerformanceThinkSomeoneYou

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

Jim Starlin

StoryGoChangesThroughLikeSome

I don't want little kids reading my comics.

Jhonen Vasquez

ReadingWantLittleKidsComics

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

MoneyYouNewMoviesHorrorMore

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

Stewart Alsop

TechnologyGoalAchieveProgramming

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

Simon McBurney

FatherMusicParentsLovedReaction

I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

LovedRememberYoungUnderstandWay

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

Tom Scholz

YearTwoDormMITReallyIncluding

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know?

Ron Reagan

PrisonYouPicturesKnowWantKind

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

Dmitry Medvedev

PeopleDemocracyVotingPolitical

I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Cherie Blair

I AmWarWorldLawyerLegalPerson

I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

Cole Sprouse

WorkLiveHopeBubbleActor

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Antoine Predock

StarsJourneyTimeRomanticSun

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Rick Pitino