We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society – bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.
As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.
You can’t get too much winter in the winter.
If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things.
Enjoy the journey and try to get better every day. And don’t lose the passion and the love for what you do.
I’d advise the youth to not get influenced or forced by their elders. They should have own political views and choices and the courage to pick the right leader.
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
I’m a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don’t get it. It smells like a girl who didn’t shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
In life, if you stay quiet, you’ll get left behind. So I had to learn to be more vocal and outgoing.
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
The first thing I heard when I got in the business – not from my mentor – was, ‘Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.’ I’m here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.
Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something.
You can’t get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
You can’t judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
I get a ton of scam emails. But instead of deleting them, I decided to hit reply.
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
As you get older, the cliches of life ring true. It’s the simple things that matter most: your family, the people you love, your health and sanity.
God is on my side, and that’s all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don’t pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that’s the end of it.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‘Here I am. This is me.’ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.
There is more hooey spread about the Second Amendment. It says quite clearly that guns are for those who form part of a well-regulated militia, i.e., the armed forces including the National Guard. The reasons for keeping them away from everyone else get clearer by the day.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
I don’t usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it’s true – I’m scary.
There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong.
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.
I’m not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Raise hell – big time. I want y’all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there’s a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.
Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.
Art is anything you can get away with.
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.
In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.
Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
Cricket is such a sport that you get to learn something from someone every day.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we’ve come too far; we’ve made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there.
It would be nice to do a movie where I didn’t have to choke the girl to get her.
You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past.
Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.
It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.
Let me get you to understand I don’t bully anybody. I stand up for what I believe in and I’m very honest and I always tell the truth. I’m not a liar, I’m not manipulative and I don’t stab you in your back because I will stab you in your chest.
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
I think I’m like wine. The older I get, the better I get.
My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
