The most effective tool I have to work with artists I admire is to point to other artists that I admire and show that I’ve worked with them many, many times. It’s not because I have option deals; it’s because they want to keep working with us.
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it’s pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
You don’t have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.
The attitude of, ‘I will never self-publish,’ coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.
I would want to work with guys that maybe aren’t starters, guys that are the fourth or fifth option.
There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
I think that kids aren’t even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don’t even know what they could do.
In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.
Losing is not an option for me.
If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my own hands.
At the end of the day, that’s just boxing – it’s a different sport altogether. But when I finish fighting for the UFC, there are so many different options I have. Boxing is another option I could take.
Plays were really my last option. The reason I didn’t write plays initially was because I thought theatre was the worst of all the art forms.
The NBA was once a league full of guys who topped out at 5-foot-9, wore belts in their shorts, and reeked of pomade. When it came to dishing the ball there was only one option: the bounce pass. The game’s changed a lot since then.
You ain’t got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn’t an option: that’s just a big part of life.
There was an option to sign for Barcelona and other teams before I moved to Madrid.
I’ve been approached in the past to option my stories for television, but prior to Evergreen, there were no assurances the production would be filmed in Alaska.
Providing access to a public option for health insurance would allow all Americans the choice to buy a government insurance plan, much like I buy for my family as a military retiree.
I spent my childhood trying to express myself, and I was not very good at it. In my town, most kids would take up engineering or medicine or something else, but acting was not an option.
I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
I fell in love with this idea that you could press a button and an SUV would show up. That idea of bringing mobility to places where it hadn’t been an easy option – that was a pretty compelling mission. It was a huge, huge challenge.
In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism. I never thought it was an option.
I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
A long-term manager is a better option than a short-term one, but you’ve got to get the right man.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It’s called a lobotomy.
Medicare has provided healthcare coverage for older Americans and disabled persons for 50 years, and I believe that steps must be taken to ensure that it remains an option for all Americans now and into the future.
People were being so mean as a result of my ability – a gift, really. So I think that’s what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I went through… to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, ’cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else’s songs.
Failure was not an option for me.
My style has allowed me to tear down barriers in day-to-day life with people who would otherwise have a negative stereotype of someone who wears a turban, but also to speak to people on Bay Street, professionals who don’t really think of New Democrats as an option.
Combining a live event with the option of streaming means that everyone can enjoy the beauty, emotion and exuberance of watching their favourite artist play live.
I’m excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don’t think anybody wants to do that.
If the press can take the easy option, they will. To them, I’m always ‘the wild man.’
I put my name into the Google search bar. Justine Bateman… And the auto-complete comes up. The auto-complete says that the top option is, ‘Justine Bateman looks old.’
Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.
Honestly is always an option, even when you don’t think it is.
No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy – Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
I wanted to quit school, and get an agent. My parents wouldn’t let me. They wanted me to have an another option, to get a degree under my belt.
I feel a composer should not crave to sing songs because songs itself decides its voice. The films where I have given music, I have kept my option for the last. I like to make music and not necessarily singing all the songs.
For me, at the level I’m playing at, I would love to finish my career at Liverpool if you gave me that option.
If D-Day – the greatest amphibious operation ever undertaken – failed, there would be no going back to the drawing board for the Allies. Regrouping and attempting another massive invasion of German-occupied France even a few months later in 1944 wasn’t an option.
Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.
Any window of opportunity is important. If your hands are tied, you should swim with your legs. If your legs are tied, you should try to hold on to the edge of the boat with your teeth. We have to use every option.
In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important.
God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.
I imagine that, for most people, acting isn’t something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.
I got into acting as a young child on account of a sort of arbitrary thing. A friend of my mom’s was a casting director, so really, as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.
Leaving the E.U. with no trade deal is the worst possible option. It will condemn British exporters to the full range of tariffs and barriers that apply under WTO rules.
Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.
I don’t think people are keen to have Coldplay tell me about Cam Newton’s red zone option.
A family’s love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.
I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don’t approach life that way, they don’t approach games that way, and they shouldn’t be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn’t be in the ‘Star Wars’ mode where, ‘I’ve got to choose every good option.’
I went to study English for two reasons. Principally because when I was in university, studying drama wasn’t considered an option. You couldn’t get a degree course for it. And so many plays and things that I was interested in landed themselves in a broader spectrum of literature.
I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I’m on to another thought. And what comes out wasn’t what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.
It was never an option to not succeed.
If athletics wasn’t an option, I’d probably work at like a surf shop in Hawaii on the beach, just dishing out surf boards.
Values-based business behavior is no longer simply an interesting option – it’s crucial to your survival. Once you understand your mission and values, you have a strong basis for evaluating your practices and aligning them accordingly.
