Top 1200 Next Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

They [ Factory Records] are always looking for the next group, the next big thing, to bring the record sales in and for them to promote and everything, but Factory just sign who they want to, put records by who they want to out, package it how they want to, how they like doing it. It's just run like that.

Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.

The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.

Brought to you by raising your voice. The next best thing to being right.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

In a few years, we might not still be into Instagram, but hopefully I'll be into the next thing and have fun do it.

If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is you go and talk to a bunch of people. But then the next thing you probably should do is figure out if there's a broader demand than just people you know. That's where I think SurveyMonkey is pretty valuable to people.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community -a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth.

I've seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night's sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices about what you eat the next morning, you're more likely to work out, you're more likely to get a better night's sleep the next night.

This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.

I don't take the pressure that your next thing has to be bigger than the previous one.

The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

My whole thing is I can't wait to inspire the next young fighters from my hometown.

It's fairly obvious, since Richard Nixon, that there is no such thing as a fair deal for any voter in the United States -- You're just not gonna get it. It's a joke -- the people that you vote for, they're the next best thing to criminals. But of course they have money for advertising campaigns that make them look a little bit better than they actually are.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Thinking that the next person, the next relationship, the next experience will free you - these are foolish thoughts of people who are bound again and again to birth, death and rebrith for thousands and thousands of incarnations.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

I don't really know what to say about Izzy. It's like you could have a conversation and think it's one way, and the next day, it's another way. And I'm not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It's just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.

One thing I like about jazz, kid, is that I don't know what's going to happen next. Do you?

The thing about great athletes is that they all believe they can win the very next time.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

One moment I'm perfectly fine and the next I feel a wave of nausea, then panic. Then I can't catch my breath and I know I'm about to lose control and all I want to do is escape. Except that the one thing I can't escape from is the very thing I want to run away from... me.

Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.

I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it, and go on to the next thing.

You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!

Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

The media, being what it is, is always looking for the next new thing. There are still bands out there playing, no matter what the new thing is. The Stones go out there, and people go see them without records or even airplay.

Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB.

It's such a cycle. You'll see a rapper drop a song, and next thing you know, he's gone.

The greatest thing about 'New Girl' is that you never can predict what is next!

If you stick around too long, people go on looking for the next thing.

The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next.

There will be byes, there will be catches that will go down, but what is important is what you do when the next chance arrives. Because there will always be a next catch. If you are not positive, if you are not in a good frame of mind, you can drop that next one, too.

In sixth grade, some kid was being inappropriate with a girl. I said he better stop. Next thing were fighting. Then were at the principals office. I got just as much punishment as he did, even though I felt I did the right thing.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

Once I leave the studio I'm ready to do the next thing. There are records I made that I haven't heard.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?