It was a natural process, because when we go to the ring we are human beings, but once you feel the punches and the competition that’s when the beast comes out and takes hold of...

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I want to make an extremely strong appeal to those who abstained. Vote. It takes five minutes and then it’s for five years.

I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don’t want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

I’m a character actor, so I don’t take the hit if the movie’s bad, the lead does. So, I don’t want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don’t.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

You don’t build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

It takes years of building that experience as a filmmaker, as well as physically. You have to have a high level understanding of martial arts.

It’s hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

These days, it takes only seconds – seconds – for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

When my characters are questioning things, it’s not me leading up to an answer; it’s me asking those same questions and letting the characters’ lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis – it takes all the playfulness away.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I’m not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I...

There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I’ve looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in...

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.