It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Even if I have already peaked, I have to believe I can improve. I wake up every morning, and go to practice, with the illusion that I’m going to get better that day.
So if you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
I wasn’t brought up with any religion at all. At school and in my early 20s, I read every religious text I could get my hands on – Buddhist scriptures, Hindu texts, the Qur’an, and the Bible. I wanted to feel like something made sense to me, that there was something sacred I could feel aligned with.
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that’s always my focus.
Once you get to the tournament, it’s like, win or go home.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
What you see is what you get. What you hear is who I am.
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want.
When you get a groove going, time flies.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
I’ve been told that having an Instagram account will help me book more roles, get more endorsement deals. It makes you more of a brand. But I’m not interested. I want to build my fan base through movies and movies alone.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.
A tailor is a person’s best friend as far as I’m concerned, because you can take things that fit OK or look OK, and if you get them tailored, they can be fabulous.
First rule of change is controversy. You can’t get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
I don’t get happy with personal milestones. I get happy when my team wins.
When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
When there’s no boundaries, that’s when you can get creative.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
It takes hard work, dedication, discipline and a positive attitude to get to the top – in business or in sports.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.
We’re only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could get hit by a truck tomorrow.
My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
I grind. I hustle. I don’t have time to get no haircut.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
NBC had a show called ‘The Toughest Bouncer in America’ that I did. But I told them I didn’t like that term, ‘bouncer.’ To me, it’s offensive. A bouncer likes to get physical, likes to put his hands on people.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It’s being able to take it as well as dish it out. That’s the only way you’re going to get respect from the players.
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
I believe that every single one of us, celebrity or not, has a responsibility to get involved in trying to make a difference in the world. Our generation faces many challenges, some of which were passed on to us by the past generations, but it’s up to us to find solutions today so that we don’t keep passing our problems on.
