You have to keep on learning all the time unless and until you become perfect in all the strokes.
My father used to say that it’s never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, ‘You never know what you can accomplish until you try.’
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
You can read books on stuff all day long, but until you get out there and just do it, if you want to start playing, and you want to make some music, then go out and play. Go find yourself a venue and play, even if it’s in your home. Just play every day. You win the fight by fighting.
It’s never over until we’re shaking hands at the net. Then you’ve either won or you’ve lost, and – either way – you look them in the eye and say, ‘Well played, mate.’
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
Nobody knows what you have in you until you’ve done it, so I just keep pushing those boundaries, and I figure it will all come out in the wash.
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do – expect the unexpected!
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
I played rugby until I was 15, 16 and I eventually had to say, ‘No, I have to choose one’ and it was obviously going to be football, I miss playing rugby a lot.
You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
It’s never a done deal until it’s a done deal.
When you’re writing a screenplay, it’s like you’re dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it.
The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.
I didn’t start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn’t make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
I don’t have a problem with anybody. Until I get on the court.
I will fight for America until the day I drop.
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things – with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense – until you start getting recognized and making money. Then you’re a genius.
A story really isn’t truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
You’re guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that’s the way that it is in this world.
I really haven’t been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn’t until I filled up my husband’s Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.
As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You are just talking.
I didn’t realize how interesting the place I come from is until I left home and saw how other cultures handled things differently.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Abortion is not a right. It is a violent act against the defenseless. It violates every principle of morality and should be barred by American law. Until that day, I fully support bans on partial-birth abortion, third-trimester abortion, and indeed every limit that can receive public support.
Benito Mussolini created the word ‘fascism.’ He defined it as ‘the merging of the state and the corporation.’ He also said a more accurate word would be ‘corporatism.’ This was the definition in Webster’s up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster’s and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
People always talk about how time flies; it’s become sort of a colloquialism now. You don’t really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s – and I’m sure time will move even faster as I get older.
America’s real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
You don’t quite know how drunk you are until all of a sudden you’re on the floor.
You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.
Trade isn’t about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
I’ve never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I drove that until I almost had to pay someone to tow it away.
You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
There are uses to adversity, and they don’t reveal themselves until tested. Whether it’s serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud’s ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
Until maybe my coworker makes a six-and-a-half-foot Nerf gun, I’m the proud holder of a world record.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.
Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.
There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
I don’t think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.
