Top 215 Shoulders Quotes

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I’m 62 now and I’ve got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

I had a lot of pressure in my career: when you play at World Cup or Champions League final, there is pressure on your shoulders.

I have to say that you don’t really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders.

I love my shoulders; they’re strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.

If I believe I’m still a young kid, it’s hindering me. I am leading the line for Everton so you have to grow into your shoes and carry that weight on your shoulders.

One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage – it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I’ve gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: ‘Dijkstra would not have liked this’, well that would be enough immortality for me.

The Kyle who made ‘Smyle’ honestly has a little more conflict in his life. He has a little more weight on his shoulders. He feels like he has to make an album about something. It’s a Kyle with duty, with a plan, with a responsibility.

My back and shoulders are my strengths. They are well-toned and do not require too much of maintenance.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

I truly believe that you can’t be a successful business unless there are hiccups. That American mentality of picking yourself up, brushing your shoulders off, and then really going for it makes you 100 times stronger and smarter.

I was a brand new senator in 2013. And the idiocy of Congress was to shut the government down for two weeks in October. And coming out of that, the pressure was put on the budget chair, Paul Ryan’s shoulders and Patty Murray. Conservative Wisconsin Republican, progressive Washington Democrat, come up with a budget deal.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

It’s nice when I have days off to go home and relax and literally take the weight off my shoulders and enjoy the simple things.

The failings in Afghanistan don’t fall on the shoulders of the American service personnel trying to complete their mission. The failure falls on military leadership unable to adapt to irregular warfare, and a Congress that blindly continues to fund failure.

I’m always being told I’ve got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

I’m a big boy with big shoulders and I’ve had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn’t bother me.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we’re starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I’m confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

Lifting is what’s made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly – and I think it’s really honed my body – it’s also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

Once we’re ignored or dismissed long enough, conservatives seem to just shrug our collective shoulders and accept defeat. It’s this type of passivity that has allowed progressives to dominate film and television, universities and large swaths of the mainstream news media.

One: whose shoulders do you stand on? And two: what do you stand for? These are two questions that I always begin my poetry workshops with students because at times, poetry can seem like this dead art form for old white men who just seem like they were born to be old, like, you know, Benjamin Button or something.

Stress happens. In different ways, we all hold unnecessary tension in our bodies all day long. Shoulders, neck, wrists, hips, hamstrings, back, oh my!

I represent a great continent. People ask, Is there pressure on me? I don’t feel pressure at all. It’s an unbelievable challenge for me, but I feel like I carry the weight of my continent on my shoulders. I want to help the next generation in Africa.

It’s hard to put your shoulders back and say, ‘right lads, let’s win this game,’ when we’re not actually winning anything.

You cannot be laid back at any given time and think ‘you have made it.’ You need to have your head on your shoulders and have the right attitude. Your attitude is extremely important.

Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

I remember when I cut my hair. I used to have hair to my shoulders. Immediately, people said, ‘Oh, but that’s the power cut. Now she looks like a man.’

In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.

I don’t care how many times I play ‘Angry Birds.’ When you have the world’s cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

I’ve worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I’ve ever worked with.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that’s a lot to take on my shoulders.

I wrote a lot of lyrics in prison, but they’d all be like, ‘Crawls upon the shoulders, hatred in the eyes.’ I wrote about 50 songs in there that were all about jail. I’ve come out and thought, ‘I’ve only served eight weeks; I can’t really write a concept album about jail.’

With such a big number comes a great responsibility so I have to accept that on my shoulders and live with what comes with it, good and bad. It is not a burden, it is just part and parcel of being a No.9.

You just can’t muscle your way through some things in life. You just have to keep your head on your shoulders and dance with it as you go.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

When you end the European Championship the best goal-scorer in your own country, you show the world that you have the shoulders to handle the pressure.

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you’re acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

I look at the careers of people I’m standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they’ve been holding me up for quite a long time.

There’s something sexy about a man or a woman when they have definition in their shoulders and their arms. When I’m at a restaurant, whether it’s a man in a sleeveless top or a woman, I can’t help but look.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written ‘Neuromancer’ on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote ‘Snow Crash’ in the early ’90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

I do what I’ve got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can’t put that together and understand that.

As a kid, I was playing a character, so the film was not on my shoulders. I did 11 films out of which three were appreciated and remembered. At that time no one was following my career, so it was easier. But now when you are a mature adult, it’s a different experience.

There are not many athletes who are out. And I think it’s something that’s important. It felt important to me. I guess it seems like a weight off my shoulders, because I’ve been playing a lot better than I’ve ever played before. I think I’m just enjoying myself, and I’m happy.

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

For me, the most important issue in the Republican presidential contest is immigration and its effect on our national security. On that issue Mr. Trump stands head and shoulders above the other candidates.

When I carry the ball, I don’t just take a direct hit. I get out of bounds when I can, get to the ground, try to avoid taking a pounding on my shoulders and legs. If I do that, I think I’ll be fine.

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I’m responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

We stand on the shoulders of giants – and that’s something we can never forget.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that’s bad for everybody.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.

My grandfather carried me around on his shoulders at 85.

I’ve never had surgery. I don’t drink. I don’t go out. My shoulders, back, legs, hip, they’re all fine. I think I bring a lot to a team.

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

That’s why I don’t live in L.A. First of all, I don’t have the money. But second, I want to stay grounded, to be surrounded by real people, to have my head on my shoulders instead of losing track of reality.

I developed my armour at prep school. I was the smallest guy in the school. I got bullied a lot. So I developed broad shoulders.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

I tried doing yoga, but I have dislocating shoulders, one of which has been pinned, so I find things such as yoga and pilates, where you have to stretch quite high up with your arms and things, quite difficult.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‘what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?’ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

When I won the world title, I am not going to lie, it was an unbelievable feeling. It was like a weight off my shoulders, a goal I’d set myself for so long and one others had talked about. When I got there I realised how I am never satisfied and how I always want more.

Nothing makes me happier than putting people or deals together and matchmaking – taking the weight off peoples shoulders for a few moments.

It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for ‘My Shot.’

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It’s about the reestablishment of the gentleman.

The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders.

It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

When you’re insecure about your technique, you close yourself off. Your shoulders tighten. The first thing, you should open your body and sing. Be happy. Sing real vowels, real Italian vowels. When you’re learning a good way to sing technically, you find it’s very easy to sing well.

It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.

A perfectly tailored gray one-and-a-half-breasted blazer or suit. I travel often, and this is something I must always have with me. It must always accentuate the shoulders and chest, to create a more flattering look.

When the biceps become too strong, it brings the shoulders forward and makes for a gorilla-like posture.

He was a physically imposing presence – 6 feet tall and very broad in the shoulders – and an imposing intellectual presence as well. Whenever he was in a group, he dominated it.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

So much of Reddit as a product was built on the shoulders of giants… We did some novel remixes of it but, at the end of the day, it was that: Grit and good luck.

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they’ve got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they’re supposed to be and what they’re supposed to like and how they’re supposed to act.

The straps that suspend a man’s trousers from his shoulders – known in the U.S. as ‘suspenders’ and in Britain as ‘braces’ – are always correct with a summer suit made of seersucker, linen, or silk.

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good cardigan too, but a jacket – especially one with sharp shoulders, interesting buttons, or a unique collar – always looks the most fashion-forward.

It felt great to acquire rock-solid, fab abs, toned shoulders and great legs.

I’m so grateful to be Ghanaian, with this deep, deep skin that is just glowy. Light bounces off my cheekbones and my shoulders, no matter the season.

I had an enormous responsibility not just to survive but to become a good man because I had all of my family’s hopes on my shoulders because they walked around outside without the shield that I carried knowing I hadn’t done anything.

When playing for Japan, it means that I carry my country on my shoulders and I feel a different kind of pressure as I am expected to do more when playing for Japan.

Whenever I returned after winning a race, my friends in the Army would lift me on their shoulders and break into Bhangra, irrespective of whether they knew the dance or not.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

If I take a bump or bruise along the way, that’s nothing compared to the sacrifices that the women whose shoulders I stand upon made along the way.

A lot of women don’t realize that even a small heel helps you throw your shoulders back and keep your chest up; it really does make a difference in the way you present yourself. It changes your posture and makes you look more confident.

One thing that’s great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn’t rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won’t hurt my career.

I don’t have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

I never want the ball above my shoulders until I’m really firing. I feel like I can generate more velocity with my arm path. The way my arm works, there’s so many benefits to it – from a health standpoint, as well.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

We see kids out there on their parent’s shoulders rocking out. And that’s really special.

Well I forgot how different it was because I’ve been here for about four or five years. It’s a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I’m there, I’m like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

The last thing my father told me was: ‘On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don’t let me down.’ A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.

I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.

When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.

Obama was elected on the shoulders of an incipient movement that he allowed to languish once he became president.

Sean Davis is one of the best youngsters I’ve been around. He’s got an old head on his shoulders and he’s a very good player.

I’ve always said my shoulders are broad, and I can take on that extra responsibility. I love it. I want it. I prefer to take it on myself to help the other guys, who can then go out and play with their heads clear and calm.

I don’t want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I’m ashamed of something.

Oftentimes in tech, people think, ‘I’m the only one that has this.’ I call them the Atlas People. They’re like, ‘The weight of the world is on the shoulders. I’m the only person who can solve this problem.’ But you can’t do that.

I’m sort of standing on T-Bone Walker’s shoulders, Les Paul’s shoulders, Lightnin’ Hopkins’ shoulders, Muddy Waters’ shoulders, you know? And if I’ve inspired other people, I’m pleased. That pleases me greatly.

Based on a taut screenplay by Nabendu Ghosh, ‘Do Anjane’ was a Hindi adaptation of Nihar Ranjan Gupta’s famous Bengali novel, ‘Ratrir Yatri.’ It was my first chance to rub shoulders with the immensely talented Amitabh Bachchan and we went on to become a super hit pair.

I would walk into a room at a young age and I’d say, ‘Hi, Dad,’ and he would say, ‘SON, PROJECT YOUR VOICE. LET THEM KNOW YOU’RE IN THE ROOM. SHOULDERS BACK. CHEST OUT.’

I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I’ve got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there’s a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now.

You hold everybody that’s Polynesian or Samoan on your shoulders. You want to do your best to represent that in the best way that you can.

Much responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the song leader; it is not infrequently within his power to make or break a meeting.

If you want to build a larger physique that actually makes you look like you lift, you need to train your shoulders, back, triceps, glutes, and legs more frequently. You probably also need to suck it up and train them harder than you ever have before if you want them to grow.

I hate how I’ve had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We’ve had some issues, but that is the nature of business.

One of the pleasing things about science is that we do all climb towards the heavens on the shoulders of our predecessors. Economics, like physics, has its heroes, and the letter ‘H’ that I used in my mathematical equations was not there to honor Sir William Hamilton, but rather Harold Hotelling.

I feel like I have a pretty good head on my shoulders about what to expect and how to come in and work as a veteran.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

I don’t think the standard of our politicians is very high. And when you get good ones, world-class ones, like a Blair or a Brown or a Thatcher, then they do stand out – they are head and shoulders above everybody else.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.

Players sometimes don’t want to have this heavy weight on their shoulders to carry the team or to get asked in certain situations to have that responsibility.

If you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall.

I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.

In my opinion, boys should not start with films before they are at least 24 years of age, because emoting on screen needs a certain amount of maturity, and a lot rides on an actor’s shoulders.

I played acoustic guitar so intensely, for so long – for nine hours a day as a 10-year-old, writing songs through the night, on tour constantly from when I was 19 – that I destroyed my arms and shoulders in the process.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

I just want to make sure girls know they don’t have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

Every February, we reflect on and honor the achievements, struggles, and icons that comprise Black history. As a proud, Black man running for office and raising two young, Black boys in the South, I am acutely aware that I stand on the shoulders of giants.

The failure of Obamacare, I think, rests solely on the shoulders of Democrats. They created the program. They pushed it through. They made this legislation happen, and they need to own the failure of it.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

I’ve always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn’t just about doing cardio, it’s also when I can get my ‘me time’ to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.

In the dance world, you have to have a certain muscular shape; you have to have long limbs and willowy shoulders. It’s hard to have breasts.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

I love bridge-and-tunnel characters. In some respects, they have a chip on their shoulders, but they’re proud of where they’re from. They’re fun and colorful.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Look at Bjorn Borg or Jack Nicklaus. Those guys really concentrate. With the world on their shoulders, they’re so absorbed with what they’re doing.

I want everyone else to become a global warming activist so it’s not all on my shoulders.

Bollywod films run on the shoulders of its lead actors. The audience goes to watch the actors and talks about the story later. On the contrary, Punjabi films are now running on the shoulders of their stories and content, which is an achievement.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.

When you’re growing up, you realize you’ve got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.

As a chief executive determined to lead Hong Kong to new heights, I am keenly aware of the immense responsibilities on my shoulders.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children’s lifetime or even in their grandchildren’s lifetime. So fatalism isn’t really an option.

I realized that I got problems bigger than anything that can happen in prison. So I started reading books, talking to people who had a head on their shoulders, sold my TV and just got a whole bunch of books.

Look at my life. I almost died. I almost died several times. My shoulders were down, man. But I kicked out. I kicked out again. Someone upstairs obviously likes me. So maybe I should, too.

Success is often built on the shoulders of failure – from which new configurations emerge.

I don’t have a brilliant body at all. I’ve got very broad shoulders. I’ve got very big feet. I’ve also got a very muscular neck.

Women are constantly being taught how to defend themselves against attack from men. I would like to shift the perception. I want to say that that responsibility should no longer rest on the shoulders of women alone.

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It’s my beauty security blanket.

Everyone has a best feature, so find clothes and accessories to accentuate those, whether it’s your shoulders or your long legs!

I only had two scholarship offers with Tennessee State being one of them. That put a lot on my shoulders – not having the same opportunities as some other guys I knew – and it didn’t feel like many people had much faith in me as a basketball player.

I’m feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.

After our life history was shown on the silver screen and much appreciated by the audiences, I have more of a responsibility on my shoulders now.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

The hair on this melon, there’s nothing special going on there – trust me – other than a bit of Head and Shoulders, of course. It’s a 100 percent bog-standard do.

In this industry, people want a ‘yes sir’ attitude. But ad men usually have a chip on their shoulders. We have more money and are more successful. We call everyone by the first name. My assistants call me Vivek but I don’t care.

I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

I stood on people’s shoulders, so I want to be there for somebody else to take it even further.

I think there’s true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

My experience with casting children is that… the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders.

I don’t bench press, but I use machines to work 10-12 muscle groups. Biceps, triceps, a few things for the back, calves, shoulders and so on – and then I’ll go on the running machine, cross-trainer or mountain climber.

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

I’ve always had an athletic frame, both my brother and I inherited it from our dad. All three of us are tall, with broad shoulders, muscular legs and a fast metabolism.

When you take away all the people whose shoulders a CEO stands on, the CEO is just a person.

I think there are definitely times when I feel the expectations on my shoulders and I think it’s because even before I race people expect me to get a gold medal and it’s not the case.

Just ask anybody who is getting old – everything starts hurting. For me, it’s my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That’s where he’s getting his power from. He’s young and has great elasticity.

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

We’re standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He’s another fighter I would like to base myself on because he’s got incredible fast hands and feet. He’s flashy but, man, is he good.

Being here in Houston, I have a lot more weight on my shoulders than I did in Portland. I feel a lot more appreciated because I am starting now, and I’m scoring goals.

I’m putting it all on my shoulders, and I’m going to be successful by my will, and no one else will be responsible for it.

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

I’m here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that’s true of every black person I know who has achieved.

Carrying on the Blanchard name is a huge honor for me because my grandfather, my father and my step-father – they’ve all put a lot into their legacy and for me to carry that on, it’s a lot of weight on my shoulders.

Pogba has never stopped improving. He has everything to become a great player. If he keeps his head on his shoulders, he can make history.

I don’t want the burden of the success or failure of a film entirely on my shoulders.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I’ve been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.

I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf.

Fathers always have their shoulders available to children for support. They are a source of inspiration in our lives and for every son or daughter, they are the strongest.

I don’t write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

As soon as a big amount is involved, the producer looks for a bankable face. No producer will make a Rs 20 crore film starring Rajpal Yadav and Johny Lever, as we cannot pull an entire film on our shoulders. Yet, we do get roles.

There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there’s great satisfaction when you think it’s going well and then real terror when you think it’s not.

Being a good actor is incredibly difficult. But the amount of responsibility is so much less on your shoulders than directing.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

A film’s success or failure is strictly on the director’s shoulders.

I had broken my nose while practicing. Also I got a fracture on my shoulders, knees.

To be able to rub shoulders with kids who have spent their entire lives studying the classics… that’s something I need to improve my overview.

I effectively stood on the shoulders of a giant to make a little bit of noise myself. I’m a by-product of Muhammad Ali.

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.

The weight of the world on my shoulders was something that I had to let go.

I’ve gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

Back in the Eighties, I’d buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

I’ve surrounded myself with good people, so that keeps my head on my shoulders.

Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It’s doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

Working the deltoid muscles along the front and top will give you everyday lifting power and help eliminate sloping shoulders, making your waist appear thinner.

One of the biggest guys I worked with was Sean Connery. People like Sean, Michael Caine, Denzel Washington, they’ve been going for a long time, and not for nothing. They want to get this job right, and they realise the weight of responsibility on their shoulders.

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let’s say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that’s just the way I do it.

Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don’t like that. I want to fight with a normal feeling. That’s why I move the fingers, shoulders, everything. I try to move like spaghetti.

No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I’m here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.

I’ve talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one’s knees and shoulders – no one wants to do it again. I’m 57 and I don’t think I’m going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.

Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don’t fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it’s OK to embrace that.

Most of us tend toward muscular imbalance. Typically our chest and front shoulder muscles are stronger than our upper back and rear shoulder muscles. As a result, our chins jut out, our shoulders round, and our backs sway.

I think often about my ancestors who struggled for freedom, and as I think of those giants and their broad shoulders, I also think about Joe Biden, who says, ‘If you are not voting for me, you ain’t black.’

I’m not trying to rub shoulders with any record executives. If rubbing shoulders in the industry is what I wanted to do then I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing.

The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.