Top 1200 Getting Over It Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Part of being a writer is just getting it in your bones, getting the muscle memory down, just doing it.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

We have, in a sense, lorded it over nature, over Sister Earth, over Mother Earth, i think man has gone too far.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Writing wasn't just a form of expression. It was a form of pathology by embarking on spoken word over and over and over again and reciting my poems.

That's one of the best parts of my job. I love interacting with the community, getting out there and getting to know people and making bonds with the community.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

Getting to St. Mary's College was a big deal for me because that essentially led to me getting to go to NYU.

I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

Getting married is an adventure. Because when you're getting married, you're doing something you don't know anything about. Did you ever think of that?

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

Kids today learn a lot about getting to the moon, but very little about getting to heaven.

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring. It's a grave thing, getting married.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

I know I'm guilty of and I think a lot of people are guilty of sort of getting starry-eyed with love and sort of looking over the bad things and keep going and you don't really prepare for how much work marriage really is.

I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched 'UHF' over and over again when I was little, and that was it. I had no time for any other movies. I watched 'Naked Gun,' 'UHF,' and 'Airplane!' over and over.

I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.

People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires.

An egoist can be won over by being respected, a crazy person can be won over by allowing him to behave in an insane manner and a wise person can be won over by truth.

You get lucky and you capture that magic in that one moment. You're not going to get it again no matter how many times you do the song over and over and over.

I want people to relate to my family, and to just getting through something - getting through loss in general.

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

When I started on YouTube, no one talked about getting famous on the Internet or getting discovered on YouTube. I didn't even know it was a possibility.

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.

Half the struggle is just getting yourself to the gym or getting yourself in your workout gear and ready for action.

All the great organizations have great managers at all levels who recognize where their culture is getting stronger and where it is getting weaker. There are always reasons why.

We were with Hayden Schlossberg enormous fans of that first American Pie. We were in college when it came out, and we watched it over and over and over again.

What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.

The important thing is not just getting good players in, but getting good characters and the right types of player in.

I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.

Others would say to me, 'It is only temporary, it will pass, you will get over it,' but of course they had no idea how I felt, although they were certain that they did. Over and over and over I would say to myself, If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion of a fulltime job will seem as quaint in 20 years as the notion of someone getting a gold watch at their retirement in the 1950s.

I need to focus on getting to the free-throw line and knocking them down in practice and getting them in the game.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

In my opinion, if the human race is going to survive, [religion] is something we definitely need to get over - and we're far from over it, and so therefore, I'm far from over it.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.

If you write in the same way over and over again, like, in the same place with the same techniques and with the same people, you're sort of writing the same song over and over again.

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict is getting rid of diversity, and it is of the utmost importance that these should not be considered the same.