Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.
I spend six to seven days a week in the studio making records. I don’t have time to go do a lot of things that you have to play the political game to get recognition with the Grammy crew.
First of all, what happens is, when you’re good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.
The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.
The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.
I’ve never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can’t speak for those guys.
My mother used to laugh that if they asked me to clean up my room, I would spend so much time reading every tiny bit of paper, a receipt or whatever, instead of throwing it in the trash.
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
You spend a lot more time on your own as an only child. And there’s space to allow your imagination to take flight.
Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.
There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport – six to seven hours daily.
I’m not a full-fledged producer, but I can be one if I want to really spend my time on straight being a producer.
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It’s kinda like being the guy on a date.
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
I’m totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him – just talking, because he was a car buff.
It’s pretty gratifying to spend so long to make your first film and then feel like it got a lot of love – that was an incredible feeling. But there’s something very distorting about that much attention. It felt like such a double-edged sword.
I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
I don’t spend much money on clothes; I never did.
It’s like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that’s why I’m going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
I’ve got a great life. I’m in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.
But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
I don’t spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.
If I’m going to spend money, I’d rather it be on a fabulous location or food, not gambling.
When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other’s company. That 10 days is very important ,and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.
I just see too many people retire and say, ‘I’m going to take off, travel, spend time with my family’ and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.
I’m not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It’s less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
If you think you know the consumer better than anyone, then you’re in real trouble. So we take a close watch. You spend time in stores.
I’m on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I’ve never had a negative interaction.
Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’
I could spend a whole day at a spa. I’d get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.
I don’t like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I’ll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it’s okay to spend a lot on a haircut.
Americans spend a lot more money on their cars, especially the older gentlemen who see it as their pride and joy.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
I used to spend summers with my Granma in Louisiana; Crowley, LA.
I love my living room: it’s the heart of my home where I get to chill and spend time with family and friends.
That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in.
I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
I spend a lot of my spare time with my family. My sisters, parents, and in-laws all live nearby.
If I’m your boss, and I truly want you to be successful… I’m inherently going to teach you. I’m inherently going to correct your mistakes. I’m inherently going to spend time with you. I’m inherently going to lead you.
If employed by employee stock ownership plan companies, working Americans can spend less time worrying about job security and retirement savings and enjoy a clearer path to prosperity.
Our house has a library – it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! – and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There’s nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
In the studio, I don’t do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it’s making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Our pro-jobs, pro-growth economic agenda is paying off for New Hampshire families, allowing them the freedom to spend their money as they see fit.
We’re all products of what we want to project to the world. Even people who don’t spend any time, or think they don’t, on preparing themselves for the world out there – I think that ultimately they have for their whole lives groomed themselves to be a certain way, to present a face to the world.
I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it’s a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.
Let your mind see every detail of your own special version of the very best that life can be. If you could make the world exactly to your liking, consider very specifically just how that world would be. If you could spend your time doing precisely what you wish, how would the moments of your life be lived?
I think it’s more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren’t here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
