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.

A world-class playboy once told me that the key to mesmerising women is to listen to them and look deeply into their eyes.

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through – it was being held together by the dirt.

People only watch six to eight to 10 channels, so if you want to be one of those channels, then you have to create content so strong that people have to come not once, not...

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

I was once married to a woman who could eat anything and tell you what was in it: the most complicated recipes. Her memory of taste – now that’s what I call memory!

When the script for ‘Once’ came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.

There are a few places around the country, north shore of Oahu would be one that I would point to, where people really look out for each other; it’s a real local sort of a...

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn’t in me.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

Once you feel like you’re being dictated by other people’s expectations, it usually backfires.

I am vegetarian. I have a sweet tooth, so I try and avoid desserts. I binge maybe once a month. I eat every two hours, whether it is a Marie biscuit or just a slice...

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on ’cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given...

Once you’re on the set and shooting, it’s all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I started flying because I had a fear of it early on. I figured if I learned to fly, I would understand better what was happening and started taking lessons in the late 1950’s, once...

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton’s head. But once it did,...

The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That’s why I try to...

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly ‘parallel’ plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don’t tell.

I like working in theatre now and I think that once you’ve done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion… What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

I once sang ‘Summer Nights,’ from ‘Grease,’ at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who’s a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny – sitting in an armchair, smoking...

I was asked once if I ever got tired of playing bimbos, and I answered that I’ve never played a bimbo. I’ve always played smart, manipulative women. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Holliday, who were not...

It’s a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you’ve written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That’s how I...

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I’m going to highlight. Let one area do the singing – you don’t want to hear three songs at once.

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop… We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We’re warriors. Soldiers.

Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear.

Once you realize that you’re in something that you’ve always wanted and you don’t want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what’s right from wrong and...

It wasn’t easy once I started running 20th Century Fox. There were a lot of eyebrows raised, and it wasn’t easy, that transition, because, you know, I had big shoes to fill and I was...

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Carrot Top… I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the...

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in while, or the light won’t come in.

I like to be busy. I once shared an agent with the late Sir John Gielgud, who, at 96, was apparently still ringing up, saying, ‘Hello, Gielgud here, any work?’ Good on him. We’ve got...

The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don’t think what you’re doing is punk rock.

Reporters no longer ask for verification, thus they print charges no matter how outlandish they may seem, and once having done that, when the truth comes out, it’s buried in the back page or never...

My dad’s Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I’ve been there twice, once as...

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

If there’s a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we’ll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we’re...