I’ve been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Discipline is what it takes to be a disciple of success

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

So it takes years to make a solid company.

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don’t typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it’s using an acoustic guitar, or...

He listens well who takes notes.

Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

It always takes a scandal to bring about reform.

My advice for writers is to get a good day job. It takes the pressure off writing if you have a job that pays the bills.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I’m – basically inside, I’m a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

It takes one person to give you a big chance.

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That’s just my own observation.

Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.

It’s not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor – yet in most companies, it takes only one ‘nyet’ to kill a project stone...

The government sends low-flying helicopters to chase the horses into corrals and then takes them from the plains of the American West to federal holding pens. The government claims it’s to save the horses from...

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don’t want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I want to build a career.

The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the...

It takes two flints to make a fire.

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big...

The organization that it takes to make a movie like ‘Star Trek’ is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction – and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

When you do a record like ‘Talk,’ and you’re happy with it, and it reaches your ambitions and then doesn’t sell as well as you wanted, it kind of takes the wind out of your...

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine...

Sachin is the soul of Mumbai Indians, and I am sure he will guide Bhajji as he takes on the responsibility of captaining Mumbai Indians.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It’s a complicated relationship.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the ‘security’ out of Social Security.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.

There’s no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an actress has something to offer. There aren’t many Helen Mirrens and Meryl Steeps, and it takes a lot of...

I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to ‘Kashmir’ was a debacle.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, ’cause it’s hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot...

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees...

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.