When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.
If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.
Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you’ve done. Actions speak louder than words.
As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you’re pampered, you get lazy.
If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
Don’t make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.
Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?
Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
You hear about quality time a lot but I really think that quantity time with a person is really what strengthens a relationship. That’s when you really get to know somebody. You get to know their strengths and their weaknesses and that brings you closer. That’s what ‘Time Is Love’ is all about.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredients together, and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake – or not.
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
Electric cars aren’t pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
It’s not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.
When I went out on tour as Bing Hitler I would hook up with Lenny and we’d get drunk together. He was always very supportive. He was a big star and a lot of what he said to me had power and impact. Apart from that, I just like him.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that’s it – there’s no turning back.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
It’s very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into something else.
You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
I will continue to work hard until I get to where I want to be.
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.’
You get a timeless cool card in New York.
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
What you sweat is what you get.
Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn’t have to get one.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.
I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.
A chef is a mixture maybe of artistry and craft. You have to learn the craft really to get there.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
Keep going and keep believing and do what makes you feel good. And when you feel good and get to the point where no-one can take that from you, then that feeling will the best feeling.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don’t mean to brag, but I’m so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we’ll get used to it. I’m sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.
