But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
I don’t know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she’d just make enough for 16 and only serve half.
You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it’ll move you to the temperature you need to get to.
When ‘Top Gun’ came out, my sisters were like, ‘Oh, my God, ‘Top Gun!’ Tom Cruise!’ And I very confidently said, ‘I’m going to marry him one day.’ It wasn’t like, ‘How do I get to Tom Cruise?’ It was just, ‘I think I’m going to marry him. Why not? He’ll like me. I’m fun.’
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
I’m trying to get myself in good shape, do my workouts, so that when I am back, I am ready to go.
Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.
Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It’s also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
If we want to get to the next level, let’s take a risk and try something different.
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Life is short and you’ve got to get the most out of it.
My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. ‘Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you’re stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem – just move on to the next. ‘Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.’
You’ve got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you’ve got to blossom where you’re planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.
I’m lucky. Usually you’re dead to get your own museum, but I’m still alive to see mine.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.
You don’t get older, you get better.
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ’til you both get your cookie.
People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it’s up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
The older I get the better I used to be!
Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
Cure for an obsession: get another one.
You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.
I’m a fighter. I’m a survivor, and I’ll get through anything people can throw at me.
Music is there to get you through life’s ups and downs, good times and not so good times.
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.
Sometimes things don’t go your way, but you get up and keep going.
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.
I think people should have fun. And don’t get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
Once upon a time, I was really lost. I was 18 going on 19, and I was shy. All I want to do is get money, and the way I was thinking I was going to do that was a negative route.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Art is what you can get away with.
I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
If you want to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who’s going to be left to fight? That’s what I want to know.
I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don’t know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, ‘Well, why don’t they get to go to Heaven then?’
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race. You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore. It will always come back; it will always reassert itself over and over again.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They’re like little seven-year old kids when they don’t get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There’s no time left to be creative.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance… has helped to determine your path through life.
In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.
