I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
Ted TurnerRead
I just love it when people say I can't do something. There's nothing that makes me feel better, because all my life people have said I wasn't going to make it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses a strong motivation derived from negative expectations of others.
Ted Turner highlights the empowering effect of doubt from others, suggesting that when people say he can't achieve something, it fuels his determination to prove them wrong. This sentiment resonates with the human tendency to rise above challenges and skepticism through resilience and perseverance.
Themes
MotivationDeterminationResilienceSuccessDoubt
In practice
Example use cases
Motivational speeches for athletes who face criticism.
More from Ted Turner
All quotes →When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
Ted TurnerRead
Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.
Ted TurnerRead
I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted TurnerRead
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
Ted TurnerRead
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
Ted TurnerRead
Similar quotes
I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
Amy PoehlerRead
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonRead
Аll I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man._x000D_ _x000D_ What I stand for speaks for itself...they don't understand.
NasRead
What you become is far more important that what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become.
Jim RohnRead
Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.
Martin BrodeurRead
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma RudolphRead