Arthur Jones quotes

“Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.”
-- Arthur Jones

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“Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing to be avoided, it produces injuries.”
-- Arthur Jones

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“Don't listen to what people tell you, there are always doubters. Work hard, believe in yourself, and believe in your ability and just work hard.”
-- Arthur Jones

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#Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #People Quotes

“Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.”
-- Arthur Jones

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“We all have different athletic strengths, but I bring a mentality, a physical toughness, an attitude, that they do not have, that helps me with the athleticism.”
-- Arthur Jones

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#Attitude Quotes #Athletic Quotes #Different Quotes

“Words are a big deal to me. I'm verbal and visual and I'm always struggling to find a way to smash those two parts of my cerebral cortex together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it feels mentally disjunctive.”
-- Arthur Jones

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“I learned to never quit, and academics always come first. I had to make sure to get my degree, because I learned that athletic ability and sports don't last forever.”
-- Arthur Jones

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#Sports Quotes #Forever Quotes #Athletic Quotes

“The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.”
-- Arthur Jones

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“When I draw it feels very natural - intuitive. I don't think about it, I just do it. My visual vocabulary is self-selecting and second nature to me. Writing is harder for me. It's something I struggle with. Drawing always comes first.”
-- Arthur Jones

Source : Source: therumpus.net

#Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”

“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”

“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”

“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening.”

“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”

Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com