I was never quiet when I worked at @cnn, when we did dumb stuff. You can’t just take the check & stay quiet. Truth demands a voice: speak up.
I don’t listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while – to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don’t check out.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
If you feel like you can’t throw a party, just put a timeline together. There are always little things you can do ahead of time – like washing and pressing linens and bringing out your tableware. Check them off as you complete them.
I usually try not to be trendy and go with what everyone is wearing. Although when I am looking for inspiration, I will check out Instagram stories. I usually look at what people are wearing in Europe. They’re fashion-forward.
I only travel with one suitcase – Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.
I travel regularly and have learnt to be very methodical as far as packing is concerned. For example, I always check the weather in advance of where I’m going to ensure that I’ve packed the right clothes.
‘Check Yes Or No’ is a song that I reference in ”90s Country.’ George Strait had a very crafty lyric: it tells a story then comes back around. Never gets old.
As a top player, you have to keep your emotions in check. You think you can control everything.
When my alarm goes off between 6 to 6:30 A.M, the first thing I do is reach for my phone. I look at Twitter to see the headlines. It’s become my news aggregator. Then I check my Instagram.
What you have in most education software is that they’re catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
So the first thing I do when I get out of bed, I will check my phone real quick because I live in Korea, but my stuff is split between L.A. and Korea.
I think because my life is so insane and it’s constantly going at 120 miles per hour, my favorite thing to do is sit at home in front of the TV and check out.
At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I’ll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don’t necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk.
I listen to a lot of audio books and business-related books. All of the great businessmen have one thing in common: they write down their goals. They keep a journal. Not only that, but I write down my goals, and I check it off: whether or not I ate right, work out, check it off.
If in the last few years you haven’t discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you’re talking ‘Madden.’
I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
Three times a year, there’s Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day weekends. You go and take a look at the new board games and meet a couple of board game designers, and you can check out games you don’t own from the library and then return them.
There is an important role for a United States senator as a check and balance on the president of the United States.
Second, we’re spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We’re spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
If you’re making $10 an hour and you’re doing your job and you’re doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn’t stand up for themselves?
You just want to put the ball in play, whether I want to throw it downfield and it’s not there, so I check it down, and it’s a productive play and let the running back get a first down. Just keep the chains moving.
It’s like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.
The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever – check the tire pressure.
Guys can see through fake! They can tell someone who’s just trying to check the box! So, I’ve got to be Kirk Cousins and believe that’ll be good enough!
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Waiting is so unusual that many of us can’t stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.
The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
If you are looking to get lean, protein and veg is going to get you there. Starchy carbs should be timed around workouts only. Portion control is pivotal to keep calories in check.
I told myself at some point that I’ve got to hold it down for my family. I can’t let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.
My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.
It’s not, ‘We have a city to bid, now let’s go check in with the federal government’.
If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals.
Almost every time I go to the ocean, I think about throwing my phone right into it. Sometimes, you pull that thing out of your pocket, you look at it, and you’re like, ‘What was I just going to do with this? Was I going to take a note? Was I going to check my email? Was I going to take a picture?’
Spell check exists for a reason.
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
I’d love to study in the U.S. I visited Vanderbilt in Nashville, and I’ve been told to check out Ole Miss. There are so many schools that I don’t really know where to start. But I do love the U.S. and have met so many supportive and enthusiastic people here while I’ve been on tour. I could definitely live here!
If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange.
The smartest thing I’ve done for my kids is writing a song about a holiday. Every year after that, even after I’m gone, they’ll get a small check from the play it gets around the Fourth.
I’ve been in a recording studio enough times to know that it is not the best place to multitask. Doing a couple of takes of a song and running out to check your email to talk to someone about video production really is not good.
Check the card before you play. If you have a couple of long par 3s, put an extra hybrid in your bag. You’ll be glad you did.
If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
Your first kid, you’re so scared that they’re going to die that you sneak into their room, and you put your finger under their nose to feel breath. And the second kid, you might check in on them once in a while to make sure they’re OK.
Now that I have kids, I’m probably more overprotective than I’ve ever been. My wife’s nickname for me is ‘red alert.’ I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent.
If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.
There’s a lot of players that go to a city, pick up a check, go to practice, and just worry about what’s happening in their households, and you can’t blame them.
Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that’s in the morning when I shave.
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you’ve heard but not had the chance to check out.
