I always find the time to exercise, I don’t really make excuses.
I don’t need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He’s got excuses for every loss he’s ever had.
Beast Mode doesn’t make excuses. It doesn’t complain. Whatever you’re doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.
It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.
When you work for somebody who is very technical, and understands and has creative solutions to your problems, it spurs you along and stops you making excuses for things. And I found that very useful.
I have everything in my house organized to an unnecessary T, and I love it! The only downside: I have no excuses for losing my to-do lists.
Don’t give in to excuses that can keep you from really living the best life God has for you.
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
When you don’t feel healthy, stop the excuses and do something. Just go outside, walk, breathe. Life’s too short to fall into a rut. You are in charge of you – treat yourself well, and it’ll show.
I had a period where everything… if it’s raining, I’m angry because it’s raining. If I miss, it’s because the pitch is too wet. It was only excuses. It was not good.
I don’t make excuses.
I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.
Winning excuses everything.
Rather than make excuses for their failures, resilient people learn from each mistake. They identify skills, ideas, and life lessons that can be gained from each failed opportunity.
In life, everybody faces choices between doing what’s popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what’s lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.
It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.
Talent is not enough. It’s a mental game. You have to deal with frustration when you don’t play, you have to deal with the pressure. There are no excuses.
There are only two kinds of employees that I’ve run across in 30 years. There are ones that get results, and ones that make excuses. If you’re in that second camp, you’re not going to like Dish.
I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don’t mention anybody else who was involved, and that’s fine. I don’t expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they’re gonna take the credit for everything. But, it’s my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.
Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it’s fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
Not looking for excuses is the right thing to do. I have made a lot of mistakes, and I still make mistakes, but I am not ashamed to look for the reasons behind those mistakes.
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n’ roll and jazz standards.
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
When an issue is important to Washington, U.S. officials figure out what leverage they have and use it as assertively and creatively as they can. They don’t make excuses.
I refuse to allow the excuses in my mind to grow into giants that keep me from living up to my full potential.
Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
It’s part of my Special Forces training. You’re taught to come up with a solutions, not look for excuses.
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write – every day, no excuses. It’s so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they’d rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
We are all busy. It’s easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
Being honest with myself is something I like. I am happy that I don’t make excuses when I make a mistake. This is a good way to improve in the fastest way.
There’s no room for being disappointed or for excuses, ‘Oh, I had four match points.’
Two of our favorite excuses for holding onto a few extra pounds and being out of shape: Too little time and too little money.
It’s important that I work with people where they know why they’re hiring me and that they’re looking to create art without fear. Anyone who uses those excuses to not cast people or to create extremely stereotypical characters, they’re creating out of fear, and to me that’s really boring.
One of life’s fundamental truths states, ‘Ask and you shall receive.’ As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
I used to play works in progress to people, but now I wait ’til it’s finished, because you make excuses all the time: ‘Well, there’s gonna be an orchestra on it.’ Rather than make excuses, wait ’til it’s finished, and then they can say they don’t like it.
Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
I think there’s a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn’t current, it means somebody has to make an excuse for it. If it’s ‘cult,’ it gives it a sense of illegitimate legitimacy.
That’s what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they’re not going to win. And those guys are losers.
I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.
If you make excuses, you’re going to believe in a lie. And I don’t believe in that lie that you can’t make it, that somebody is trying to hold you back.
The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I’m trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don’t want to have regrets or excuses or think, ‘I can do better next time.’
We’ve heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don’t want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it’s just that most of them are white males.
Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
A lot of times on our show, ‘Shadowhunters,’ we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we’re going to fight demons, but it’s all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.
Illiberal feminists turn simple ideological disagreements, whether about the federal budget or the Second Amendment or anything else, into excuses to engage in character assassination, dismissing their opponents as sexists.
If you’re making too many excuses for someone, agonising over them in a way which takes up all your waking thoughts and feel so nervous around them you could be sick, then they are probably the wrong person.
Anybody that got in your way or stopped you or barred your success, you either push through them or work around them. I don’t have enough time for excuses or crying about people saying how someone wasn’t given a proper opportunity. Nobody gave me an opportunity.
