Top 115 Certain Point Quotes

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Furthermore, I don’t believe you have to be quite that competitive to compete effectively. Beyond a certain point, all that bearing down is self-defeating.

I came up in this industry at a time where you had to be a journalist. You had to break stories. You had to break news to elevate your career, to get to a certain point and a certain level in this business, before you even had the license to give your opinion, especially if you were a black man.

At a certain point, you have to stop reading social.

When people are making up stories about Bob Mueller on Fox News and those get traction in congressional committees and in the White House, at a certain point, I’ve got to say no.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who’s influencing me at any time.

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.

Shakespeare’s idea of the tragic fact is larger than this idea and goes beyond it; but it includes it, and it is worth while to observe the identity of the two in a certain point which is often ignored.

At a certain point, I had so much artwork that I decided to respect the art and present them in a nice way, not just on a dusty shelf.

I don’t want people to think like Roddy is John Legend now. I just felt like once I got to a certain point, that I wanted to expand musically.

At a certain point, you get banged up a lot.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it.

I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you’re playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you’re lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it’s like, ‘I want to be home. I’m a dad. I’ve got kids.’

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

It’s funny. Some people now are like, ‘Why would you transition? Why can’t you just be comfortable how you were born?’ That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.

Although there’s a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything’s possible.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It’s not very interesting. I don’t want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It’s not very interesting. I don’t want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, ‘O.K., that’s it; merci.’ But I’m not interested in that.

I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he’s greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man, and he wasn’t.

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Messi and Ronaldo have dominated world football for a decade and, given the nature of football, at a certain point the baton will have to pass to someone else. I think Neymar has a great chance of filling that role.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It’s not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will.

I’ve always felt more comfortable in the company of women, and as far as girlfriends go, they’ve each been a learning experience. You meet someone at a certain point in your life, then break apart, but you always share that time.

I realized, at a certain point, all my big people were dying. I couldn’t see a clearer picture: what’s the difference between me and him, of me being in a casket?

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

When you’re an aspiring actor, you do so many self-tapes that it gets to a certain point where you have to develop a thick skin, otherwise you will never survive.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

There’s a certain point in chemistry and in calculus where I reached the end of my abilities, and I realized, ‘This is where I’m stupid.’

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.

There’s a moment when you come to a certain point, and if you make the leap you get to the big leagues. But if you back away, you get stuck.

In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas’s dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck.

I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I’m still a gym rat for comedy clubs.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk – that is confrontational. That’s just a part of the language of jazz – at a certain point.

We are still keeping, as much as we can to the one million commitment that we made, hoping that at a certain point in time, the headwinds represented by the strength of the yen will be a little bit less strong.

I sometimes think it’s better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they’re not supposed to.

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don’t give you love, you’ll go somewhere else to find it.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

At a certain point, this is a brand. It’s got to be bigger than me as one little person. We have a lane – and it’s a good lane – and want to drive faster down that lane.

You make certain assumptions as a parent. And you kind of think, at a certain point, you’ve figured things out. And then all of a sudden, that person that you raised and nurtured and thought that you knew is someone else completely.

At a certain point, when I let go and was done – when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective – that’s when I healed. Letting go healed me.

At a certain point, you have to decide whether you’d be satisfied always acknowledging the beauty and the greatness of what other people create or if you want to be in the same arena.

When you’re at a certain point in your time – age, that is, when you’re older – you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It’s not grand at all, actually.

It is true that Britain and its institutions have survived past crises, but often this was because those in charge, at a certain point, snapped out of the stupor of latent optimism, recognised the dangers circling the nation and acted.

Because I don’t think it’s very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that’s a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

I found at a certain point in my acting career that I was just bored. I had too much energy. I had too many ideas.

I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, ‘I’m writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.’ So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

At a certain point, you can’t tax people beyond a certain level.

My age has so little to do with my image of myself because at a certain point, the number just didn’t fit how I felt. It has become irrelevant to me. I just don’t feel like that number is representative of my spirit, of my energy or my anything!

The first thing you learn about the music business is that it changes very quickly. You come into it at a certain point and you think you have a handle on it… And then, three years later, the whole thing has been turned upside-down.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

It’s a very interesting thing because I can start mixing a song and leave the room and come back and maybe just slide one lever to a certain point, and it just – it’s a certain feeling that it gives you when you know it’s right.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

You can only get to a certain point when you feel confident with the simulator and it always changes when you get to the track and you actually drive it for real for the first time.

A lot of players get to a certain point they don’t want to make mistakes. They just want everyone to see how great they are. That ends up being their downfall. You put a cap on yourself.

People fall into patterns at fast speeds, when really, to have a clear musical thought – the kind of musical thought that makes a melody work – our brains just can’t think that fast. At a certain point, you’re going on automatic.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it’s easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you’re not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look different. It is a point of view.

I left ‘Fast and Furious’ because I just felt like, at a certain point, after number six, there wasn’t another story that I wanted to tell.

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels – horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it’s not about the money.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don’t get them, and they’re going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism – and not necessarily blindly follow the audience’s requests and advice.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

At a certain point I’m going to want to have a family.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It’s unfortunate.

When you reach a certain point I feel like you have to go outside and find your own resources and coach and trainer in order to make it to the top.

I enjoy being out; I like being around people, but at a certain point in time, I kind of run out of charming, and I’m ready to go home, and I’m very comfortable alone.

At a certain point in one’s career, you want to win, not just have a great season. You want to win a championship.

Al Qaida changes; Al Qaida adapts. We have to adapt as well. We rely on resources to do that. Reducing resources beyond a certain point will make us less able to adapt as our enemy adapts.

You meet Rush at a certain point in his life where he’s made a decision that he’s going to not live by the moral code of being a doctor. He’s decided to disengage with that side of his life for various reasons, which we find out through the first season.

We all struggle in life at a certain point.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there’s always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

There’s a certain point, when you’re writing autobiographical stuff, where you don’t want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

I’m probably only going to make 10 movies, so I’m already planning on what I’m going to do after that. That’s why I’m counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.

I no longer say I’m unemployed. I say I’m unemployable. It’s different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That’s not the case with me. I’m unemployable, and unfortunately, that’s one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you’re capable of, and you have to not care.

You have to be able to connect and re-connect to the passionate things that got you to a certain point in the first place. If you can connect and continue to hold onto that passion, that’s the key thing that will help you get through tough times.

I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing – editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don’t need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

The more you style, the better you get. Don’t give up. At a certain point, the magic happens.

It’s fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you’re just like, ‘Oh, I’d love to work at home.’

I can’t complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn’t complain because there’s so many people who would kill to get to this point.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there’s a certain point at which you realize, ‘Well, I’m not really on the implementation or execution side – I’m not on the battlefield. I’m an operations person who’s overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.’

I think that at a certain point in our lives we should have to interview our parents.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Before I became the No.1 DJ in the world, people came to see me – they knew my sound. They were straight-up fans. After that, you have to deal with the pressure and knowing at a certain point you’re not going to be No.1.

After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

I think of being an actor as kind of a young man’s gig. It’s emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

I think, honestly, my largest concern, there are a lot of unbalanced people out there, and all of a sudden, I’m the CIA poster girl, and our home in Washington, the front door was about 20 feet from the street. I went to the agency at a certain point and asked for security on a residence.

The G7 – and earlier, the G8 – were a group of countries that shared the same values with regard to freedom and democracy, and through the annexation of Crimea, Russia made it clear at a certain point that these values of keeping the peace, integrity of the borders of a country were not being respected.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

At a certain point, when there’s a barrier between you and what’s right, eventually you have to decide you’re not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame – but you shouldn’t take it for granted.

I think I wrote the first draft of ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ in ’79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It’s like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they’ll crystallize into a pattern.

Writing is what I do. It’s like breathing to me at a certain point, but if I couldn’t write, I do like cooking.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

Every relationship I’ve been in becomes long-distance because of work. It’s never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.

I like being to the point. It is not my nature to talk too much or indulge in loose talk. I like being brief, and beyond a certain point, I have nothing to say.

Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

I don’t start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.