R- THE DON Quotes

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Decisions are the frequent fabric of our daily design.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.

Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in good shape; got Ridley Scott with The Cartel.

I think having good family and friends really helps to ground you.

I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

I would prefer things to be peaceful and not have conflict.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

Prior to the 1976 Olympics, I was a 5,000m runner.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

Being called a 'bad citizen' is a compliment to a novelist, at least to my mind. That's exactly what we ought to do.

My whole act is off the top of my head.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

You're unique, amazing Like no one else You have the exclusive On being yourself.

It's much easier to love yourself when you are being yourself.

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball.

His [Donald Trump] audiences love it.

Some people have nothing but experience.

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

I think the economy is the point of greatest uncertainty for most people.

I'm very grateful for the people that I work with, because I don't get to choose them.

I think the biggest challenge and the biggest uncertainty for everyone is the economy.

Insanity's so personal. It's hard to know who shares our secrets.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities.

It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.

You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.