You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
I like to consider myself a star – a star, that when you look in the sky, it’s always there. And on a clear night… a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
I am the people, I’m not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers is doing, that’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world.
My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them… I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
Even nice things don’t make you happy when you’re tired.
Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Speak when you are angry – and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
My mission is to make the world happy and cute and to love everyone. I think I’m doing a pretty good job.
Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.
I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
The flaws, the mistakes I make – that’s the real me.
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
A bowler can make or break a chap.
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings.
We’ve got some people who think Shariah law oughta be the law of the land, forget the Constitution. But the guns are there, the Second Amendment is there, to make sure all of the rest of the amendments are followed.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
I’m a defender, and my first job is to make the team secure at the back; that’s my primary responsibility.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing.
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of being human.
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes.
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
I just claim to do what I do, which is to sing old songs and try to make them cool.
Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you’re a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you’re stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
You’ve got to have a villain and they’ll always make me a villain. I’m used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don’t imagine, it will never happen.
Don’t let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it’s no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
One things guys have to remember is consistency… You can’t make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
