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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie
Work
Best
You
World
Nothing
Believe
Has-Been
Best Work
Seeming
Doing
Been
Impossibilities
Up
Get
Done
Hold
Against
Then
Much
Your
Thing
If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
Dan Jenkins
Day
You
Three
Important
Important Things
Other
Relative
Out
More
Take
Hours
Know
George
George W
George W. Bush
Friend
Walker
Than
Any
Golf
Bush
Bushes
Then
Your
Round
Herbert
Things
It is a little bit demoralizing to work a show, and you just try so many times to get something, and the creator just keeps saying, 'No, not that.' Then they just instantly come up with something.
Dan Mintz
Work
Saying
You
Try
Bit
Something
Instantly
Come
Demoralizing
Up
Times
Get
Just
Little
Little Bit
Then
Show
Many
Creator
Keeps
The planning fallacy is that you make a plan, which is usually a best-case scenario. Then you assume that the outcome will follow your plan, even when you should know better.
Daniel Kahneman
You
Better
Will
Assume
Outcome
Follow
Scenario
Know
Make
Fallacy
Which
Plan
Then
Should
Your
Planning
Even
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made.
Daniel Levitin
Time
Knowledge
You
Made
Drop
Thinking
Our
Once
Considered
Spent
Claims
Critical
Critical Thinking
Something
Part
Implicit
New
Well
Well-Spent
New Information
Issue
Update
Just
Information
Then
Should
Bargain
Requires
Evaluating
You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
Daniel Radcliffe
You
Become
Sense
Say
Out
Kind
Find
Self
Screwed
Them
Aside
Then
Really
Who
Media
Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
Darren L Johnson
Business
Fear
Believe
Response
Followed
Following
Headlights
Obstacle
Question
Owner
Any
Often
Size
Biggest
Stagnation
Which
Biggest Obstacle
Then
Business Owner
Internal
Now
Deer
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Time
Disagree
Job
Men
Both
Then
Useless
Agree
Two
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
Dave Barry
You
Unless
Boring
Catch
Fish
Fishing
Disgusting
Then
Actual
I want to figure out a way to not be stupid with money, then make a whole bunch of it, then I want to move to Outer Mongolia. I want to milk a yak. Maybe I'll just settle for a cow.
Dave Matthews
Money
Stupid
Settle
Way
Out
Outer
Make
Cow
Bunch
Move
Maybe
Just
Want
Then
Figure
Whole
Milk
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
Dave Navarro
Funny
Future
Experience
Tomorrow
Thought
Live
Negativity
Laugh
Would
Something
Direction
Head
Miss
Because
Felt
Been
Times
Going
Stop
Want
Then
Chance
Suicidal
Once I will warn you, and then I will fire you! I have a zero-tolerance-plus-one policy for gossip. I will teach you once, and then I will fire your butt.
Dave Ramsey
You
Gossip
Will
Fire
Once
Policy
Then
Warn
Teach
Your
Butt
It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.
David Cameron
Life
Love
You
Perspective
Challenge
Face
Lose
Young
Nothing
Else
Everyone
Everything
Everything Else
Bit
Dread
Someone
Puts
Like
Well
Sort
Does
Hit
Child
Then
Much
Your
Thinks
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
David Foster Wallace
God
Man
Else
Worship
Cosmos
Something
Make
American
Either
Then
Your
When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.
David McCullough
Work
Book
Thought
Research
Way
Write
Began
Then
Should
Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
David Miliband
Politics
Good
Vision
Values
Before
Sets
Starts
Analysis
Out
Solutions
Empathy
Policy
Getting
Proceeds
Then
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy
You
People
Better
Will
Settle
Aim
Remarkable
Look
Leave
Hire
Than
Get
Them
Then
Who
Routine
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.
David Rakoff
Life
Time
Best
Age
Old
Somewhere
Everyone
Self
Between
Most
Felt
Always
Least
Years
Clock
Very
Authentic
Authentic Self
Then
Internal
Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!
Debby Ryan
Thankful
Thanksgiving
Dinner
Three
Down
Every
Guess
Everyone
Hat
Dinner Table
Table
Write
Put
Wrote
Around
Pass
Them
Then
Who
Things
Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.
Deborah Harkness
Beautiful
Home
Family
People
Dangerous
Hair
Edge
Wild
Extreme
Slightly
Kind
See
Having
More
Like
Witches
Also
Always
Making
Traditional
Amazingly
Very
Craft
Confident
Either
Straight
Them
Then
Who
Things
If women talk in ways expected of them or project a feminine demeanor, it's seen as weak. But if they talk in ways associated with men or bosses, then they're seen as too aggressive. Whatever they do violates one or the other expectation: either you're not talking as you should as a woman or as boss.
Deborah Tannen
You
Woman
Women
Men
Seen
Expectation
Whatever
Not Talking
Aggressive
Too
Other
Project
Ways
Weak
Boss
Bosses
Demeanor
Talk
Talking
Feminine
Expected
Either
Them
Then
Should
Violates
Associated
Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.
Denis Leary
Dog
Every
Our
Pants
At Least One
One Or Two
Would
Some
Pretty
Scene
Takes
Stuff
Like
Least
Wag
Came
Off
Up
Improv
Shoot
Did
Just
Where
Script
Movies
Then
Much
Certain
Flew
Used
Rehearsal
Seat
Two
When I was a teenager, you couldn't get straight pants. Then in '76, when punk started to hit, it was a revelation that you could find straight pants again.
Denis Leary
You
Punk
Teenager
Pants
Find
Could
Revelation
Hit
Get
Again
Straight
Then
Started
When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
Dennis Banks
Spiritual
You
Poverty
Look
Then
Foundation
Differently
People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
Dennis Kucinich
Politics
People
Lose
Other
Rip
Fed
Fed Up
No-One
Voters
Knows
Because
End
Up
Candidates
Just
Anybody
Where
In The End
Apart
Then
Really
Stands
Each
You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.
Derek Cianfrance
Today
News
You
People
Thirty
Telling
Minutes
Windows
Seems
Facts
Bottom
Like
Boxes
Opinion
Opinions
Editorial
Going
Anymore
Happening
Little
Turn
Cut
Turn-On
Then
Here
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