Top 1200 Getting In Shape Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.

It's always tough to get back into football shape.

I run, lift weights and do yoga to stay in shape.

I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.

When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning.

Before getting on 'The Voice,' I was very critical and judgmental of people's vocals. After getting on the show, I was so nervous, I realized my low notes were gone, so nerves do take a big toll on your voice.

I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

You have to chip away at it and shape it to let the winning idea emerge.

I definitely want to get in shape and be healthy again.

I started as a short filmmaker and found that one of the toughest challenges was getting your film to be watched. I would enter it in competitions and release it online, but getting a mainstream theatre-going audience to view the film is difficult.

In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

I fled communism as a child. That's an experience that can shape you forever.

If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

I dance every day and my legs are in good shape.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.

Decision is the ultimate power. Decisions shape destiny.

I want to make sure I'm in the best shape possible.

I just had such a lucky experience working with incredible actors, getting to see their work ethics, their different techniques... Jeff Bridges is such a legend! Getting to watch him and see how he worked was a blessing.

I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

In 'Stranger Things,' of course, I have all these kids around me and I feel like on a TV show, you're more connected with everyone already. But it's fun getting on a movie set and getting to know everyone. There're pros and cons to everything.

If I was talking about making a song special, I probably meant getting the lyrics and arrangement together, or getting some instrument that's going to tie the whole thing together. That can take months, or it can happen really fast.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

It's a league that you really have to get used to. If you're coming from another one, it's a tough league. Getting the experience playing in a Premier League team and getting hopefully consistent games will be huge for me.

We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

I'm constantly out of my mind trying to stay in shape.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.

I am trying to re-shape and improve my central position.

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

I don't claim to be a pro gamer in any shape or form.

The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction.

Our career had a sort of funny shape.

What we name must answer to us; we can shape it if not control it.

I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

I'm in the gym nonstop, I'm always in shape, so I'm willing to do what it takes.

Own your beauty whatever shape or form it comes in.

I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family... Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.

I'm very interested in how colour and shape are perceived.

That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.

My body's in such bad shape I wear prescription underwear.

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.

Dancing every day certainly gets you into shape.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

I have never believed the manmade global warming allegation, but I fully understand however the people who do. All it takes is a 105-degree day in July, and the normal reaction is, "Man, it's getting hotter! I wonder if we're getting hotter?" When I was a kid, everybody wondered, "Are we on getting closer to the sun?" This is a natural thing. This is really where the left is really smart. They have the ability to tap into what people of their own volition are already concerned about, and then they give 'em a reason, and they give 'em substantiation for it.

I try to do my best in training and to get in shape and be prepared.

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

Don't let your dreams escape / The future's ours to shape