Getting Quotes
9422 Getting quotes by 5659 unique authors
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..Fear is the energy to do your best in a new situation. The feeling of fear (anxiety, nervousness, shyness, or any of its other aliases)…
— Peter McWilliams
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Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
— Edmund H. North
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a…
— Cal Ripken, Jr.
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I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and…
— Julia Sweeney
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Getting healthy isn't just about losing weight. It's not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It's about recalibrating our souls…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself.…
— Elmore Leonard
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Since you know the means of getting better, in the name of God, make use of them. Do not take on anything beyond your strength,…
— Vincent de Paul
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…
— Cornell Woolrich
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Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.
— Patrick Ewing
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I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I'm pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.
— Jack Welch
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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There was a good deal to be said, Hilary decided, for middle age and infirmity. The years in which one demanded much of life were…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of…
— Josh Lanyon
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It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a…
— Oliver Burkeman
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To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well,…
— Thomas Leonard
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I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.
— John Kessel
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Its like a Contiki tour, getting on and off buses, getting pissed.
— Willie Mason
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Being smart young men, they say to themselves, "I want to get married, have a family, and I understand my wife wants to work too.…
— Vicki Donlan
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Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you…
— Bob Woodward
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.
— Paul Simon
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For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.
— Phyllis Diller
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Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done…
— Harold Nicolson
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If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry,…
— Waylon Jennings
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A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he…
— Carl Jung
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