Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.
I always say that when I’m playing well, no one can beat me. I’m not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it’s true.
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Dre was a person who could see ahead of the beat. He could see the beat before it was even there. He’s like a rare person. Very rare.
U2 are a great band; they’ve given us an unbelievable body of work, and all of us musicians owe them at least something. I can honestly say that every time I have played the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, as soon as my drums are set up, I go into the beat of ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday.’
A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts, but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden’s rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it’s Sweden.
I’ve been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
I get Tweets every day from people telling me that ‘Hey, I’m going to overcome my injury or my illness. Cancer. Different diseases. I can beat it because Adrian Peterson showed me the determination and the willpower to be able to prosper and get through adversity whenever it comes.’
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
It’s horse racing. If you can’t beat him one way, try to win another way.
The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they’re better at something else, but they’ll never beat me at work.
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife… You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don’t beat yourself up.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.
I don’t like to beat around the bush.
The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline.
I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks. We can’t beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats.
Every pitcher can beat you, it doesn’t matter how good you are.
We didn’t have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
I’m not a guy who goes into the neighborhood, gets beat up by the bully’s gang, and then now I want to join their gang. That’s just not me. I wanna fight – let’s go! I mean, I’m gonna stand up for myself. That’s just the competitive nature of where I come from, the era I grew up in.
News, news, news – that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
It’s hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.
What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.
Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don’t need to beat yourself up about it. I’m not white-picket-fence perfect.
I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn’t be beat, and I actually fell for it.
I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It’s a sport, competition, so I’m used to it.
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.
I don’t know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.
I didn’t beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
There’s stuff I don’t like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don’t like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
I guess I’m attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
I guess I just have one of those resting faces that makes me look like I want to beat you up.
The thing about boxers is that there’s respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that’s the code of honor.
Those folks out in the space suits are going to be getting beat up.
Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!
I’m a big potato chip girl. I don’t like chocolate and cakes and all that, but I have to have my potato chips. I’ve got bags in the back of my car right now! But I never beat myself up about it, because, look: You can’t give up every damn thing. You need something in your life that you like just because you like it!
Nobody’s easy until after you beat them.
Like most fans of ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ I wouldn’t know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake.
It’s interesting. I’ve known quite a few good athletes that can’t begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.
I would never know how good I was if I didn’t have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor’s office. I’m black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.
Originally my entire goal with music was for it to be my job. When I sit down to make a beat, I wanna know that I’m gonna get paid from it, and that I can pay my bills and still have money left over to be a person.
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can’t beat them, and if you can’t beat them, join them, as they say. As I’ve got older I’ve become very interested in that part of the work.
I’ve gotten my butt kicked by the best. Jet Li beat me up the best, but Steven Segal can still kick a good butt. It’s a different kind of kicking, though.
When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.
I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn’t know what to say.
I’m broken from the inside. The depression that has slowly eaten away at me has finally consumed me, and I couldn’t beat it.
I am the underdog – the 5-foot, 6-inch wrestler. The kids don’t say, ‘I can beat Rey.’ Instead, they say, ‘I can be like Rey.’
You can’t beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on ’24,’ but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he’s a jerk who can beat up bad people.
Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally – you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.
I love my tattoo and I think it looks great. It’s like an old pair of jeans, it’s beat up. I remember when I first got it outlined. I’m like ‘why don’t more guys do this?’ Then I realized the pain.
Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.
I’m off to race around the world – a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
