Top 375 Picking Quotes

There is definitely a Japanese influence on my style. I spent several years back and forth training over there, training at the New Japan Dojo in Los Angeles and picking up various techniques from wherever I go.

I try to be like a sponge when I’m around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that’s what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

But learning how to enjoy my own company – and picking up hobbies is really important as well in not being bored and staying sane. But it can be quite difficult to get to that point where you can sit and relax and enjoy your own company.

My mom had a produce business in in Oxnard, and we used to take these long trips to talk to farmers and different distributors. She’d take us with her after picking us up from school, and she’d be blasting all this old soul music and R&B. I knew all those O’Jays songs before I knew Snoop or Dre or Tupac.

I’ve dedicated my entire career as an educator, principal, administrator and now as state superintendent toward solving problems, not picking fights.

Once you get within a few weeks of the show and it becomes WrestleMania season, the energy starts picking up, and the energy feels different. You can feel it in the air, and every show means a little bit more, and everything is a little more focused and directed. Everything’s directing toward that day of WrestleMania.

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

It’s all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I’ve been in every one of them, picking things out.

From an early stage in my career, if you’re talking about picking up knowledge, it would have been via Ian Greaves who was involved in my success as a young player at Bolton. And working under managers such as Bobby Gould and George Graham helped me to expand my knowledge at bit more.

You get people criticising people who are happy to sit on the bench, picking up money.

It’s almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine… I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

Some days my husband Derek and I barely have time for a conversation about anything apart from the business of life – who’s picking up who and who’s cooking dinner.

Everything in life is overcoming objectives. I don’t care if you’re picking up a woman in a bar or trying to jump a rocket over a river.

When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch – where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don’t want those jobs. Let’s be real about that.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.

The best way to learn sweep picking is to first isolate the right- and left-hand techniques, master them separately and then coordinate them.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn’t have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

It’s awesome to see other games picking up on battle royale, adding their unique spin to it, and advancing the state of the industry.

My biggest ‘don’t’ from the past? Picking my face!

I’m a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that.

When I went to university, I got work experience at my local radio station, and I used to spend hours in what was then the CD library. I was supposed to be filing the CDs, but I was actually randomly picking stuff up and blaring it out of the speakers.

I did ‘Damnation’ on USA, and hopefully I keep picking up smaller roles and learn the craft.

T20 runs should only be a criteria to get selected for a T20 side. The moment you start picking players in the one-day format by their T20 performance, then you are giving your domestic 50-over competitions absolutely no relevance.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I’ve never done in anything in my own voice, and I can’t imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight.

When I was 12, there was a kid a couple of grades older than me who was picking on my sisters. No matter how big they were, I would defend them.

There are so many factors involved in picking a model for a shoot or show. If they want a brunette, then they’re not going to go with me.

That’s what I love about Nashville and the music community – seeing kids around acoustic music and bluegrass picking parties is the best.

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Something a lot of people probably don’t know is ‘Chapter One’ did have the idea to make a post-credit scene, which was Beverly Marsh picking up the phone. So, 27 years later, post credit, you would see a phone ringing.

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it a style.

The taste of guava is my first memory. I remember somebody picking it from the tree and throwing it down to me.

I’m an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I’m apple picking. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts – it’s as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.

Picking just one game above all is nearly impossible for me, but if I had to, it would be ‘Metal Gear Solid.’ I remember being completely blown away with the story, the mechanics and the overall presentation on my first playthrough.

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

I remember the nuns used to swear quite a lot, so I think maybe it’s picking it up from them.

There’s a catharsis in cutting down trees. But there’s absolutely none of that in picking cotton. It’s maddening! It’s fiddly, and it pricks your fingers, and it’s something that’s a very hard skill if you have no alacrity for it.

I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn’t know that was the name. I didn’t know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on a sharecropping farm. Working tremendously hard. Five years old, picking cotton and laying tobacco out to dry on a farm, and today he now owns that farm.

In the periods of my career when I stopped passing the ball forward or when I stopped looking for the risky pass that might open up a defence, the consequences were the same. The manager stopped picking me. I got back into the team when I went back to doing it the way he wanted.

I’m a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won’t be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Picking up a tell – a hint that a player unknowingly gives that reveals the strength of his hand – often means the difference between winning and losing a big pot.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is a fairy tale, but it starts in a place you really believe, and that came from spending two months wandering around the slums picking up stories and talking to people.