Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly. Goals are for people who care about winning once

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of...

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it...

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90...

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn’t need...

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that’s when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you’re done, you want to say, ‘I hope you all enjoy it.’

Once, I was a bigger star than Greta Garbo.

Once you’ve invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story’s grown to around a half-million words and can’t be written as anything less than a trilogy.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and...

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he’s fantastic. I worked with him once; he’s a really great actor.

I’m a registered Independent. But my brother says it’s obvious that I’m a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn’t matter.

I am against changing my body to become better. I am not against implants, I have a lot of girlfriends who have them, but the implants look good on them. I am never gonna get...

Once you have a mission, you can’t go back to having a job.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your...

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118...

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

I’ve always been fascinated with adrenaline; it’s saved my life more than once, and it’s caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human...

Y.O.L.O

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much...

Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we’re praying for or what we’re praying about. So once you write it down, it’s like...

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

Along the way, let’s never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing together without distinction of skin color, society level, or where people come from. Adults need to remember to...

I think taking vacations and turning off the phone and only doing emails or social media for a specific short amount of time helps with work/life balance. If I’m checking it all day I start...

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that’s far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

‘Pied Piper’ came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not ‘dark,’ per se.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Focus on what you want to do. Don’t be scared to try stuff. You only live once. Get your mind towards what you want to do and you’ll achieve it. It makes it fun. You...

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn’t nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a ‘Dear Murph’ letter...

I learned a lot about what I do with my craft, how I present my music. A lot of things about him were very much an influence on me and everybody else. Once you get...

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

It’s wonderful to be grateful. To have that gratitude well out from deep within you and pour out in waves. Once you truly experience this, you will never want to give it up.

We’ve been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don’t want to give away too much, but if you’ve read the books, it’s the standoff with lots of vampires in play....

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days...

I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was...

Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there’s no getting back on it.

I was in the Pritikin Center in Santa Monica once, trying to lose 30 or 40 pounds in a month. I’d work… on a treadmill and with the weights, but it was driving me nuts....

Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I’m out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.

I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn’t want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross...

Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those...

You couldn’t define the ’80s when the ’80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn’t. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at...

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.