You can escape competition through authenticity, when you realize that no one can compete with you on being you. That would have been useless advice pre-internet. Post-internet, you can turn that into a career.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago… I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

That’s great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you’d want to spend more than three hours in.

Still, the change is nearly indescribable – going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

I always request a king-size bed, and if I can’t, I try to work that out right after I land. I unpack immediately so the clothes don’t get wrinkled. I go the gym. I adjust the temperature; I like the room kind of warm. And then turn on CNBC.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

I don’t like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

Performing doesn’t turn me on. It’s an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime’s work, and I don’t profess to be...

She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

There isn’t a switch that I turn on. I’m an actor. This is what I do.

I’ve gone to skin doctors and they’ll say to you, ‘We should remove this because it’s pre-cancerous,’ and I’ll say, ‘Explain pre-cancerous to me.’ I’ll listen for about twenty minutes and I’ll say excuse me, ‘Is pre-cancerous like pre-dead? So you’re saying it could turn into cancer but it’s not cancer?’

There are two things that turn a boy into a man; the size of his dick and the level of his patience.

I think it’s still hard for me to turn down work if it’s really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn’t and so it’s kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren’t the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.

Utakapofika mwisho wa njia, geuka. Huo ndiyo mwanzo wa njia nyingine.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I’m always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

I did turn down ‘The Virgin Suicides.’ I talked to the producers about it, and I just honestly told them that I didn’t get it. Is it supposed to be funny, is it a thriller, what is it?

It’s not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.

You can’t show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

A vagina is a door to a new world,” I thought as I grabbed the handle and gave it a turn.

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.

I haven’t got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don’t like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Certainly businesses the world over are facing greater competitive pressure than ever before, and this leads to executive stress which, in turn, tends to bring out authoritarian tendencies in many bosses. To balance this, we now know a lot more about how we can successfully cope with a situation that is not likely to improve...

I’d never choose to turn the clock back.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.

We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

I always take kind of a zen view of casting and I really don’t remember people who passed. I kind of turn it over to the universe and figure, ‘Wow, I guess that wasn’t meant to be.’ It doesn’t sit with me.

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

Everything is going to be fine.”I hate it when people say that, people who have absolutely no idea of what’s coming next. They turn you into an idiot for even asking.

As I turn 91 this June 8th, I have to admit my hours at the easel have diminished.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, ‘One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.’

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word ‘organic.’