Top 1200 Measuring Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I don't have maybe the typical fighter story of having to grow up rough. I grew up great.

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down. When you're supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you're supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there's no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is darkness.

Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.

More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up.

What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.

I always need to clear up what I do. With everyone else, there is no problem, but with me, all hell is raised up.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

I grew up watching 'Gossip Girl' and 'The O.C.,' and I looked up to Blair Waldorf and Summer Roberts.

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.

Running up a steep hill or up steps are fantastic ways of building explosive strength.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

I am called to love my neighbor, which I do. I can disagree with my neighbor about several things, but I'm not going to hate my neighbor. It's not up to me to hate anybody. It's not up to me to judge anyone. It's up to me to be nice, to be kind and to do everything I can to help somebody.

Line up your thoughts up for potential, take action and success will follow.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

People have this misconception that I'm going to beat them up when I meet them. But it's like... no. Just 'cause I stand up for myself, and I'm honest, that doesn't mean I'm going to beat people up all the time.

My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!'

When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn`t, when he runs up against people who he worries are funding his dissidents or supporting protests against him, when he runs up against criticism of the way he runs his own country, what he`s running up against is the State Department.

Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

Geezers might say, 'I wouldn't wear make-up even if I was going on TV,' but why not? You'll look better. I can most frankly be called a geezer - I've earned the right to be called a geezer, a proper stand-up guy, that kind of thing - and if I can wear make-up, so can you.'

In my business, if you look good, no one is going to be checking up on whether you work out. So it's up to me.

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

When you're in an industry where you're forced to grow up so quickly, part of you never grows up, and that's a good thing.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.

There's a lot of people on the way up who want to take my place, so it's up to me to continue to improve.

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

I was fed up with doing vampish negative roles, dolled-up with heavy makeup all the time.

When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!

If coming up with ten ideas sounds too hard, then come up with twenty.

We wake up at 5 A.M. every day whether Howard has to get up for his radio show or not.

When we grow older, we start getting caught up with ourselves. We try and live up to an image.

A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn’t want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can’t go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model," Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with," Gator rumbled. "Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.

But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

I won't consider a script if there's nothing redeeming about it. I can't do shoot-'em-up, bang-up shows.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

That cowboy had heartbreak written all over him and she'd be damned if she knew why every time he blew into town she ended up naked before he ended up gone. Reed always ended up gone.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

I grew up up and down the East Coast mostly. I went to high school in Reston, Virginia.

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

When I'm up there, I'm just thinking that I've got to make them laugh or they won't show up next time.

If you are sad, if you are heartbroken, make yourself up, dress up, add more lipstick and attack.

I think, a lot of times, bands will break up because their goal is commercial success, and most bands aren't going to get that: it's out of their control. If you do, you're one of the lucky ones, but that commercial success will likely fade, and you'll end up breaking up anyway.

Standing up for what you believe is right, as well as standing up for what you believe is funny, standing up for what you believe is cool. As we found each other and the music that we do, we get to live out all of those things. That's what Run The Jewels is: it's all of those aspects of our personality.

Oh I don’t wanna grow up, wish I’d never grown up It could still be simple.

I think politicians in America don't speak up because their local lobbyist has them shut up.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.