Mean Quotes

I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore, radio stations will put it on. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t do something else and also make it sell.

It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it’s pretty obvious when you’re in a kitchen and when you’re not.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

To share a lot of ideas – not ideas – emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

A bad day on the course doesn’t have to mean a bad night and a bad week and you get to scream at your agent.

Being brave doesn’t mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it’s the right thing to do.