My top tips for deep sleep are to switch off your laptop and mobile at least 30 minutes before bed and leave them in another room. Ditch the bedroom TV; listen to music instead. Get a comfortable eye mask. It takes getting used to, but trust me, it will allow you to sleep deeper and longer.
Don’t let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.
It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
To build a friendship takes so much time and so many years. To ruin it, just seconds.
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today’s education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.
I think marrying somebody who’s not a celebrity, it just takes a lot of the pressure off.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Keep smiling – it takes 10 years off!
It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.
I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.
It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in ‘Mea Maxima Culpa.’
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
Whatever it takes to win.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.
I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.
Anyone can be a DJ but it’s understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.
Anyone can support a team that is winning – it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.
I think it takes a lot of confidence to be comfortable in being vulnerable.
It takes a lot of money to do what we do. We have brought over 122 million people to the Lord Jesus Christ.
I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.
It takes a few to make war, but it takes a village and a nation to build peace.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.
Pace, rhythm and timing. Pace, rhythm and timing is what it’s about. The content’s got to be great, but then it’s got to be delivered. It’s a tricky thing to do, and it takes a lot of work.
We invest in real estate, equity shares, etc. My father takes care of it and my wife helps too.
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don’t know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
I’m sick of all these labels and these manufactured subdivisions of music that don’t even exist. And even though I’m pierced myself, I’m sick of everyone equating body piercing with musical courage. If you ask me, it takes a lot more than that.
For almost 20 years, I’ve reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.
You’ve got to admire my courage going into a picture where the dog is a star. It takes a brave man to play opposite one.
Growth without diversification, technological improvement, and increased productivity is easily reversed: all it takes is a dip in commodity prices.
For a long time, it was like I was part of some special forces unit: I’d land, meet everyone, five minutes later I’d have to do some amazing work, then – boom! – I’m out again. You know, playing supporting parts takes courage.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
I just go where the guitar takes me.
As a driver, you’ve always got to believe in your heart that you’ve got what it takes to win it. You’ve always got to believe in yourself. You’ve always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You’ve always got to believe in the positives.
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.
Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
It takes a real storm in the average person’s life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time.
The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.
Soup is really easy to make: you can take basil, celery, acorn squash and boil them and then put them in the blender with sea salt. It’s delicious and only takes about 15 minutes. You can make it the night before. It’s kind of like making baby puree, and there are a ton of super easy recipes.
I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren’t working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music – it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that’s what music is about.
It takes so much strength to say to your ego, ‘You know what? You’re going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.’
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn’t let someone else be the person to find it for you.
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can’t really find a way to change those things.
It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.
