Top 440 Default Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
A column is a curiously intimate affair. For a start, you know by default that you will have regular readers, so it gives the writer the privilege of continuing a running conversation with them.
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.
It's so much easier to use the default sounds in the synthesizers in Logic than it is to make your own thing or to learn how to play an instrument.
I believe if you are sincere with your work and you are good at it, then your identity will be created by default.
Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.
In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.
I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.
My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.
Mr. Macri's government caused damage similar to what Argentina suffered in 2001: a debt default, no foreign-currency reserves, a steep devaluation and increased poverty.
I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.
I'm trapped in a fun-house mirror reflection of a historical society where everyone was crazy by default, driven mad by irrational laws and meaningless customs.
I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
Working for several years as a waitress, you learn really quickly a couple of default scripts, so you know exactly what the interaction is going to be when the person sits down at the table.
The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.
A huge part of my life as an actor has revolved around fashion and beauty - just by default. It's such a big part of the business.
You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.
There's a feature on Facebook where you can enable security that checks the device you're coming from. By default these features are likely off, but as a consumer, you can enable them.
Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.
Nobody wants the United States to default on its debt. Nobody. But, at some point in time, we've got to address the fiscal woes of this nation.
I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.
Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.
I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
Marc didn’t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever.
I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.
Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.
There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark
I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
All couples have been told to schedule regular one-on-one time. 'Date night' is the default answer to most problems in modern marriages. And research backs this up.
When the pressure is on, you're going to default back to how you've played your whole life and how you'd normally pitch.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
It is of note that for a long time moral nihilism was a kind of unquestioned default position in analytic moral philosophy.
Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO.
I think that it would be a mistake for any institution to think that their stake in a default or in a voluntary accord is determined by the amount of their exposure, hedged or unhedged.
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.
It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.
If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.
You see, I get a lot of love and appreciation from the elders of the film industry as well as from the media fraternity by default because of the goodwill that my father has earned.
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
As far as I am concerned, ambition is the most dangerous occupation in the world. I have never been ambitious, or if I have, it's only been by default.
I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.
People like me who are reform-minded ignore the people who say, 'Just criticize and don't do anything and let's win by default.' That's ridiculous.
I use the default iOS calendar app. I've tried others, but it's my favorite, and I can't live without it. If it's not on my calendar, I'm not aware of it, whatever it is.
If you have a character named Captain America, he is, by default, a political character.
My default is e-40 because there's no one else in the world who raps like him. I've always loved e-40.
I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.
In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
Teachers are always emotional: by default if they bore us, and by design when they excite us.
The ultimate fulfillment of God's mercy in Jesus is not something that is supplied in time to correct a default in the system, but is something that is planned from all of eternity.
I'm a better editorial cartoonist by default because so many editorial cartoonists out there are so awful.
We are in for a fiesta of default, repossession, and distress selling of suburban property, much of which will lose its presumed usefulness and monetary value in an energy-scarce economy.
