Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.

Before you ask for readers, write the article you wish you could read. Before you ask for the sale, create the product you wish you had. Before you need support, be the supportive friend. Before...

Do I attribute my success to hard work, or sunscreen? If you want the truth, maybe you should ask my new albino secretary.

Sometimes that’s a lot to ask, so I’m not going to pressure them into being at a certain stage. As a coach and a teacher I learned a long time ago you’ve got to bring...

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

Take golf out of the equation, and ask yourself, ‘Will I still be happy there?’

I’m pragmatic. If this is going to make sense, get me a job, and in the end let me put my kids through school. I’ll play killers. But my kids always ask me, ‘Do you...

In the Thai case we have seen the prime minister ask one of the deputy prime ministers to head an inter-ministry group. The high level of political attention is key.

Here’s the teaching point, if you’re teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn’t absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of...

You couldn’t ask for a better tune-up going into the state tournament.

What more can you ask for? We had the opportunities at the end. We had two shots under the basket in the final seconds, and we missed them both. You want the opportunity to take...

I don’t think you could ask for a better young manager for a young team. And I think there’s an instant respect there as well. The career he’s had on the field and winning championships,...

Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit...

Cindy Sheehan is making a starting point with the questions she is asking and it’s not unpatriotic to ask them, … It’s actually a higher form of patriotism.

Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.

Don’t ask me about my career – I’ve forgotten most of it.

It’s a great recognition and a tribute to their hard work. I think if you would ask them they would thank their teammates.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man...

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn’t ask questions.

I heard my teacher said “great people make history”. I am not concern about “great” or “people” or “history”. I am concerned about “make” and it keeps me asking the next question “how?”! They are...

Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: ‘Jacquet,’ he’d say, ‘knock off that tempo.’ A lot of jazz musicians didn’t prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz...

It’s just a number. I’ll ask for the ball if we win. But if it’s a good kicking ball, we want to keep it in the game.

You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.

There was only one person I wanted to ask, because he is the best.

Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.

In Australia, a deaf person attending an interview must take their own interpreter at their own expense, or ask the employer to provide one. Believe me, nothing says ‘I’m the best person for this job’...

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

She left everything on the floor and that is all we can ask of our players, to compete.

The question I ask myself is what would have happened if newspapers hadn’t initially given their content away for free on the Internet. It’s so hard to get people to pay once they are accustomed...

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don’t say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

You’re never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they’re in front of you.

We need to ask our policy makers and those we elect to office who are supposed to make decisions to give us the evidence of the facts that are behind the decisions that we make....

Unanswered? I would’ve answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

I ask myself, is the book being digitized by someone else, or is there an earlier edition of the same book that’s being digitized?

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

Younger songwriters will ask me, ‘What did you do?’ And it’s like, ‘Well, I worked a day job, and I didn’t stake anything. I didn’t quit my day job. I didn’t have any hopes at...

He represents that reference that you can always turn to and pull off the shelf and ask questions.

You know, with her background at CBC, Madam Clarkson would probably ask permission to cross a line, which is the etiquette.

We fought well in the second half. I can’t ask for more than that.

Those were the three words seldom asked to her.Yet, she knew they hold a healing power in them; For they bring a million thoughts to the mind and more to the soul; For the answer...

I always ask my brides, ‘Who are you, and what do you want to tell everybody?’

It’s probably the third thing they ask.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, ‘the public option,’ or ‘a public option,’ you’ll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

He can hit any shot and he’s got a deft touch around the greens. Ask him on the range to hook a wedge 30 yards and he can do it. Or cut his 2-iron or...

What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally...

They listen, and they work hard. I can’t ask for anything more.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

So I want to make money. I think it’s an OK goal to have. I always felt like I can’t ask for that. But why not?

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.