The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.
and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.
That was real disrespectful and stupid. But it ain't really catch me off guard. I mean, when you see certain things in a person's character [like J-Hood], you don't get really get caught off by guard by certain actions.
Sometimes, my manager is caught off guard by me talking to myself, so he'll start talking back to me.
Biodiesel seems to be the answer to a lot of our prayers. Not only can it help the U.S. economy, our unwanted dependence on foreign oil, and the gasping environment, it could also help the family farmers out of this tragic dilemma they have found themselves in through no fault of their own.
I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.
You never want to be caught off guard on the red carpet.
The only way I know to be awesome at startups is to be obsessively focused and pegged to the floor of the deep end, gasping for air.
I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.
You find a lot out about people when they're blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.
You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.
I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.
For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.
The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.
When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.