If you really want something, you can have it if you’re willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it… Autograph your work with excellence.

This is the core of the human spirit … If we can find something to live for – if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives – even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.

I don’t think any actor can be happy with their performance. There’s always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

Even if it’s such a lowly art as TV, you’ve got to get stuff off your chest, because that’s what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it’s to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovine about them.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

A writer is someone who has written something today.

You’re trying something new. That in itself is a reflection that you’re going in a good direction.

I been buying a lot of 45s. Try to get a groove off of 45s cause its like they only press singles. Trying to get a break off that you gotta really be hunting for that sh… What Ill do is Ill look for a groove or something to start if off with but then I try to build around it. Try to make something out of it.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

I’m always looking for something that’s different, and that’s how I want to continue my career

Every film set is a classroom, and every role teaches you something new about yourself

I’m not interested in making music that fits into a mold. I want to create something unique.

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default

I believe that the worst sorrows of man’s life lie only in fear and nothing else. And this is what the man must always be aware of in his life.

If something is hurting you, why and how and how can it be changed?

Pain is easy; pain is something with which I am familiar.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn’t know I knew.

We are all prone to think there is something wrong with the mental processes of the man who disagrees with us.

All I wanted,′ London said later, ’was a quiet place in the counry to write and loaf in and get out of Nature that something which we all need, only the most of us don’t know it.

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

Always just remember that you can never know all; you’re always going to be learning; there’s always going to be something new. I don’t think you’ll ever have it all figured out.

Difference is not something to be feared; it’s something to be celebrated

I don’t like to be entertaining. I don’t like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!

Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

What I believe is this: Catalunya is not Spain, it is something else and you have to feel it

At the end of the day, you either want or you don’t want to know about it. It’s a mercy thing – you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to

I really hope to do something in the watch industry.

Music is really nothing if you think about it – it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

Luck is something you find, or you go for it.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

It depends on how my football career goes, but when I am finished, I would love to go the NFL and be a kicker. Even if I got to play just one game, it is something I would like to do.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.

In Brazil, we think we can help by using our image, the fact that we are very well known, to help others. I think lots of footballers want to do something, but many don’t know how.

It’s easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.

If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Saying no to something is actually much more powerful than saying yes.

I’ve never met a person who doesn’t have a story. Everyone’s got something they’re dealing with

You can’t be something you’re not. You have to be yourself

I think it’s a combination of something being well-written and well-directed and well-acted, and finding the right thing at the right time.

I always look for a challenge and something that’s different.

I’m an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

When something comes to my brain, I don’t ignore it. You never know what it’s going to turn into.

I have always enjoyed keeping wickets, as it is something that comes very naturally to me.

If something is not working, then you just fix it.

There are many individuals who know me who can’t comprehend for the life of them why I would find a good pace in something as unserious as baseball. If they just knew

There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there’s also something wonderful about being secure.

What does ‘economic justice’ mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure

World War II was an injury that incapacitated authors. It was something supernatural, merciless.

On Wednesday, when the sky is blue, and I have nothing else to do, I sometimes wonder if it’s true That who is what and what is who.” – Winnie-the-Pooh

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived

The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.

Some have brains, and some haven’t, … and there it is.

Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said “Nobody.

I don’t see much sense in that,” said Rabbit. “No,” said Pooh humbly, “there isn’t. But there was going to be when I began it. It’s just that something happened to it along the way.

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Plenty of Westerners come, though, to pick through its jumble for something off the peg that fits; they do yoga as exercise, which is a bit like walking the stations of the cross as aerobics

The one nation America has seemed to gain something of a special relationship with is Israel, the sliver of the Middle East that has no oil and little strategic importance

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable

If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

It is simply this: a writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control that reality. It reminds me of something Pablo Picasso was supposed to have said to Gertrude Stein while he was painting her portrait.

I’m something of a foodie, I guess, and I’m a big Chinese food fan.

So many out there place an undue burden on themselves to succeed at something, whatever it might be, and then if they fail, grow seeds of resentment and hate toward that failure and, as a result, themselves, and in many cases, project that resentment and hatred onto others.

True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.

If you do nothing long enough, something’s bound to happen.

America’s genius has always been to take something old, familiar and wrinkled and repackage it as new, exciting and smooth

The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the worldworl

I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I’ll go for it.

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

The secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.

Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman – a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.

There is always something left to love.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn’t, do something else

The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability

Above all, try something.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn outright, we can modify it as we go along

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches make you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

This country’s been around for a couple of hundred years, and we think we’re hot shit. We don’t even realize that other countries have thousands of years of history and culture, and they’re proud of it. And when we deal on an international level, you know, with foreign policy and stuff like that, and we try and go in as a big American, strong country and all that stuff, they must laugh up their sleeves at us because we are nothing. We are culturally nothing. We mean nothing. We’re only interested in the bottom line.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

If you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence

When you’re mad at someone, it’s probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat

If you’re looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

You want a career? Do that first. You don’t want to have kids? Then don’t. You don’t want to get married? Then don’t. But once you do something, you’ve got to know that there is compromise.

I’m always saying something that’s just the edge of something more.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you – what a revelation.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

My family called me the ‘why kid’ growing up. I always needed to know why something is happening, why I had to do something, why whatever.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

There is something magical about three you know – a trio is tight and nicely economical.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Miami’s not anybody’s poor cousin. It’s an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.”

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there’s a current and just stare into the water. I don’t fish, I don’t hunt, I don’t scuba, I don’t spear, don’t boat, don’t play basketball or football – I excel at staring into space. I’m really good at that.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don’t know why people shouldn’t write poetry. That’s brave.

we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, and wants it down.

So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing’s a double skill, really.

I accomplished something big and that’s a memory I will never forget.

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.