Grant Tinker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

First be best, then be first.
-- Grant Tinker

#Firsts
Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.
-- Grant Tinker

#Success #Enough #Periods
I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.
-- Grant Tinker

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Success begets more in television.
-- Grant Tinker

#Television #Begets

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.

Grant Tinker famous quotes

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