Narcissism is the part of my personality that I am the least proud of, and I certainly don’t like to see it highlighted in everybody else I meet.
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.
I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
People regularly practice playing a sport like golf or basketball – but few people think about ‘practicing being successful.’ I had practiced meeting the Queen of England – what I would wear, how I would stand, the handshake – so when I did meet her, I was comfortable – for I had practiced the moment for years.
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It’s not the body-the body will change.
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn’t pass that up when it comes your way.
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don’t get excited or star struck by someone I’ve been dying to meet, it’s time to retire.
My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don’t meet. And then your friends say: It’s terrific!
What SF author or fan isn’t interested in human space travel? I’ve yet to meet one.
I’m not Christian. I didn’t meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a ‘Heavy Metal’ comic.
Our career is a dream. I mean, we get to act, travel around the world, and meet cool people. What’s not to love!
I really enjoy travelling around the world. I get to meet some extraordinary people.
The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.
It’s difficult for me to meet women because my crowd is much older. I know that for some of the young women I do meet, a relationship with me can be envisioned as a benefit to their career.
The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.
I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I’m much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.
At Dell, we believe the customer is in control, and our job is to take all the technology that’s out there and apply it in a useful way to meet the customer’s needs.
The H-1B visa program which helps sustain our rapidly growing economy and also helps meet the health care needs of families living in rural New Mexico.
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there.
But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.
I’d like to meet a nice girl and leave all those ‘hottest bachelor’ lists behind.
My deeply secret favorite movie is ‘Meet Joe Black.’
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
I’ve done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that’s always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you’re lucky, you can meet them.
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
I am a terrible chef; I’m not a good cook. I don’t have the talent, the patience, the desire even to cook the way these great artists that I meet around the world cook, and I’m very, very happy to support them. I invest in restaurants because I love them so much.
There’s always more demands than there’s time to meet them, so it’s constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
It’s great – that’s the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
Be kind to people on the way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down.
I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
I meet many inspiring individuals who have worked hard to rebuild their lives after an attack; however, it can be hard to stay motivated when the justice system does not always reflect the severity of these crimes.
Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You’ll have that readership. Keep going until you know you’re doing work that’s worthy. And then see what happens. That’s my advice.
I’m in my own little world. I don’t get invited into galas; I don’t meet other people that I don’t find interesting. I hang with my friends all the time, and we do exactly what we like.
My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It’s where you get to meet the people, the experts.
Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They’d earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.
I’m single, and I think that by the time I met someone – if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don’t think I will, because I am too fussy – my biological clock means that it will be too late.
I went to these mixers, you know, where you’re supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.
We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.
I’d probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they’re somewhat biographical – they’re fiction but also non-fiction.
You play one game after another, meet new people every day, and travel a lot. That is why I try to disconnect and relax as soon as I get some time off.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
When you meet someone for the first time, that’s not the whole book. That’s just the first page.
Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.
I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it’s always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn’t know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?
Life… It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.
He is one of the finest and kindest human beings I have come across. When you meet him, you will understand why he is the Jackie Chan. It’s not just for his work but also the kind of person he is.
