You’re assisting the audience to understand; you’re giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don’t give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it’s almost more pure. It’s a cooler thing.
I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.
Whenever I’m asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.
LeBron’s been like a big brother to me, watching me play and giving me pointers on just little things. I really look up to him.
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don’t enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
The only thing I want to do is keep working and keep giving everything I can in every game.
I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they’re being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don’t have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn’t do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.
I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, ‘It’s about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.’ So I knew I wanted to make films.
That’s what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.
I got my start by giving myself a start.
Disrespect is tired. Shade is old. Sipping ‘tea’ isn’t cute. But loving, supporting, giving, being grateful and perpetuating light, is.
Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.
We can’t deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And that means giving our Border Patrol the total resources they need to get their job done, and even utilizing military personnel in particular hot crossing spots.
Giving is what makes a nation great.
I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name – and moving on.
The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don’t think I’m that selfless and giving.
I just don’t know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
High-speed Internet access, or broadband, is giving entrepreneurs anywhere an unprecedented chance to disrupt entire industries and transform our country.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I’m giving an interview or talking to people, that’s all that I’m thinking about.
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it’s all about. It’s about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.
When it comes to time management, I talk a lot more about energy management. I try to give people 100% of my energy even if I’m giving them very little of my time.
A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
The more one forgets himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is.
I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of… I don’t want to use the words ‘self sacrifice,’ but that’s what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.
I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop.
I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one’s life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow’s pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
We’re proud that everything we do is giving off light.
You can’t give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad – in fact, to do anything it wants.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.
You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, ‘Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don’t want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?’
I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost.
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice – change this, change that – and one thing that I didn’t do was fire anybody.
I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
