Top 1200 Going The Extra Mile Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy.

What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her (or him).

Be extra careful when buying into companies and industries that are the current darlings of the financial community.

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

You soon get into a habit of eating less and that's the key to shed the extra weight.

You don't come around to the pit lane every mile; when you leave on a rally, you're gone for 500 miles in certain stages. You've got to work on your own car and fix it. It's a logistical nightmare, and it really challenges me.

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish.

There's no way I could put on running shoes and go out for a 5-mile run, but put a ball in my hand and I'll go for days. Or until I break something.

Radio 4 Extra is the network which offers the broadcasting version of eternal life.

Oakley's sunglasses are hot and I feel a little extra cool when I wear them.

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Why do I run? It's the best form of exercise. It's totally the core of being in shape. I really feel so good - anytime after the first mile. You start fantasying. You start thinking about things.

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation.

I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

We have witnessed Chernobyl, Bhopal, Challenger, Seveso, Amoco Cadiz, Three Mile Island and have still not wakened from our fantasy that large organizations can carry out complex technologies on a huge scale with total perfection.

An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino

Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.

The only way to go further than you've been is to take an extra step.

All goals are amazing. But scoring away from home, if I am honest, is extra special.

I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.

I don't like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.

Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

I believe it is better to take extra precautions now than to regret later.

There's always an extra 10% you give when it's live as suppose to do a pre-recorded show.

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.

When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

I have a cottage near Aldeburgh, and from there its a sturdy two-mile walk across farmland to an empty beach, where I collect hag stones and run around with the dog. Im a keen walker, and I love Suffolks big skies.

Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

You get so much out of the extra effort that you put into looking your best.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

If Trump were a boxer, he'd be Muhammad Ali. Because he's going to win. He's going to run his mouth, he's going to talk a lot and he's going to win. And you ain't going to know which way he's going. You had the Louisville Lip, he'd be the New York Lip!

The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions.

Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

They don't give you extra points if you make a 50-yarder that goes over the net.

Throughout the day, I like to spritz my face with a rose water for extra moisture.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

If the only way you could read an email was to run a mile first, the urge would quickly die. Human beings constantly do subconscious effort/reward calculations. Tapping a screen is the easiest of physical tasks.

I had on my team a girl who at age twelve just missed the world mile record for her age group. But at 20 she just couldn't run.

Extra homes require additional services and councils have to pick up the tab.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.