No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid.
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.
I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
Unlike a pressed or blown-glass part, which traditionally has smooth internal surface features, a printed part can have complex surface features on the inside as well as the outside.
Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.
Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don’t know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I’m designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.
It’s never going to be a smooth sailing ship, there’s going to be ups and downs and I think one of the most important things to understand is not to ride the highs too high and ride the lows too low – it is a marathon and if you can just try to steady the ship as you go.
I want to be competitive but I need to smooth some of the edges or I will be the one who suffers.
There’s something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.
I’ve always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn’t a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with – friends I brought in with me – are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That’s why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.
My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
I’m cool under pressure. Cool as a cucumber, actually, eerily so. My friends and family comment on it. I think I get it from my father, the quintessential smooth operator.
I think I needed to hit the reset button and figure out how I want to play football. I want to play football at a smooth, calm level.
Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
It’s not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face.
The Bay, they got their own sound, they don’t try to be like nobody. They smooth out there.
Unlike food mills, stand mixers, or even the humble potato masher or whisk, the potato ricer breaks down a potato into a smooth and fluffy mash while only rupturing the cells once as they pass through the perforated base.
To deliver a smooth, orderly Brexit, we must build a majority for a deal.
After a shower, I slather my limbs with coconut oil or rose oil and pat dry. I use a dry brush to exfoliate several times a week to keep my skin smooth.
I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He’s just the real deal. I’m captivated by him because there’s so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
Textures apply to everything I do. Even within my music, I like smooth things, and then hard and fluffy things, all giving them their place to shine.
I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It’s a huge dent in you that it’s hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.
I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me.
Arsenal’s style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.
I’ve gone through the years and I’ve written stuff for Jules that has never gotten published, but I thought I’d write her smooth R&B bedroom song.
I listen to all types of music. I listen to a lot of hip hop, but I also listen to pop and house music. I really, really like smooth jazz.
Every time I tell someone that I’m doing ‘Spooks,’ they’re like, ‘Wow!’ That’s a guaranteed reaction. It’s such a high-end show, it’s so sexy and slick and smooth.
I don’t want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.
I don’t think anything’s ever simple. Everyone’s just trying to understand each other, and whether that’s because you’re in a relationship or because you’re meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.
Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn’t as hard as you might think.
I damp my hair, take 2-3 drops of serum, and apply it through the length of my hair – my hair becomes super smooth, letting me style it any way I want, and – it also gets the perfect, glossy finish.
It’s very tough for someone who doesn’t have a filmi background to get work in Bollywood. It’s not a smooth ride unless you are really lucky. But I think one has to be prepared for that.
Winks just don’t come off as smooth for me as they seem to for everyone else.
The MAC Skin Primer keeps my makeup nice and smooth during application and throughout the night. I can’t be having no creases up in this mug!
Tai Chi is not super masculine. It’s not super pushing and strong, but it’s has so much power in its movements. It’s so smooth and it’s so subtle.
Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.
To us large creatures, space-time is like the sea seen from an ocean liner, smooth and serene. Up close, though, on tiny scales, it’s waves and bubbles. At extremely fine scales, pockets and bubbles of space-time can form at random, sputtering into being, then dissolving.
At the crux of Half Dome, at the very top of the wall, imagine, like, a smooth wall of rock – a nearly vertical granite slap with tiny ripples for your hands and feet. And so you’re really trusting the rubber on your shoes to stick to these ripples.
There’s something just so kind of smooth about politicians.
I seldom reraise before the flop no matter what my hand is. By so doing, I’m able to disguise the strength of my hand and can trap unsuspecting opponents who interpret my smooth call as a sign of weakness.
The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam’s rib. Then there’s Cain and Abel, twins at war. They were followed by Esau and Jacob, likewise divisible into hairy and smooth types.
I am very spoilt and want my travel to be smooth and peaceful. I don’t like to rough it out, and I certainly do not fancy the idea of backpacking.
Grief doesn’t have a plot. It isn’t smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
It hasn’t been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.
People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we’re built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
I’m not that smooth.
I had to fight in K-1 in Japan to make a living between fighting and doing commercial work over there, and it’s been a roller coaster in a sense, but it’s been a smooth one.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It’s not always a smooth one.
A lot of people say, ‘I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.’ All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.
A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.
