Top 140 Exactly Quotes

I have a family to support. And I’m not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

For me personally, I just don’t have anything to prove anymore. I know exactly who I am, I know that I’m intelligent and acting dumb or acting like whatever. If that’s funny to me because I know it’s false then so be it.

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

There’s a line in the picture where he snarls, ‘Nobody tells me what to do.’ That’s exactly how I’ve felt all my life.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

If there is something that I should know how to do but don’t, it bugs me. I feel like I have to sit down and work out exactly what the problem is.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

That’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that’s not exactly a full-time job. It wasn’t that I was writing and writing and writing and quit. Every now and then I wrote something, and every now and then I didn’t. The second just outnumbered the first.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with ‘On the Road’ and ‘The Dharma Bums’, I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

If you’re old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

I don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

I am the American Dream. I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That’s exactly what I’ve done.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

I’m never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better.

Be exactly who you are. You can fit in any space you see yourself in. Be fearless.

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I’m going to do that.

What’s nice about experiments is that they are much more closely tied to what theorists think about the world than normal empirical research. You can design your experiment to exactly ask the question you want to ask. This is not true about normal empirical research.

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be – whether they will admit that or not.

Every single woman is beautifully unique, and the sexiest thing she can do is own her curves, embrace her differences, and stand tall in exactly who she is.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.

My attitude as a footballer was to always be prepared – make sure you’re the fittest and know who you’re up against. And that’s exactly how I treat the media side.

Have you noticed that almost all the change in the world goes to women? When was the last time you had a five pence piece? Exactly. In a Christmas pudding. All the rest of it is in women’s handbags.

Let’s put it this way: I don’t have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours. I don’t understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why, exactly.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I’m in exactly the same place I was when I left home – that, to me, is a miracle.

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Trust me, you can’t change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It’s impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It’s exactly the same.

Obama is a fine, very impressive person. He really is. Unfortunately, everything that he is doing in economics is exactly wrong. He is a crappy president.

You can not define being exactly on time.

I study a lot of philosophy. I want to be an example of how to enjoy this success, and that’s exactly what I’ve done. I’ve enjoyed every moment.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they’ve hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer’s there and he knows exactly how it’s supposed to be said. So you can’t really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

All of us from fertile egg to embryo to corpse, are exactly that: warm, wet, furry animals compelled by the sexuality of our forefathers and foremothers to be, either directly or indirectly, our own exciting and excitable, provocative and provocable selves.

I push myself hard. I don’t like pain, exactly, but as a ballerina, I lived in constant pain. At ballet school in Stockholm, I remember we had a locker where if someone had been to the doctor and gotten painkillers, we divided them among us. In a sense, we were all addicted.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

We’re all biased, right, in many different ways – politically, religiously, ideologically, the way our family raised us – and that’s fine. Nobody wants to live in a world where everybody thinks exactly the same. The key, though, is to try to figure out where your biases are holding you back from solving problems.

There’s an idea about who I am that’s eternally projected onto me, and then I almost feel like I have to fulfill that role. Even when things come out of my mouth, I want to be sure I’m saying exactly what I mean.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I’m not so presumptuous to feel that they’re gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they’ll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that’s why I started writing stories on my work.

Love is the only unifier in the world. We’ve all felt exactly the same way. It’ll make you crazy, and it’ll make you ecstatic, and that’s true for everyone.

Most people don’t know where their food comes from. We’re confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on?