D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don’t try and make me feel better, Alex. I hate you.” “I hate you, too.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.”
Source: Silver Borne
“Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.”
“Don’t try to be anybody else because that’s what makes you not swaggy.”
“Don’t try to be anything but yourself, and find success as yourself. Otherwise, you won’t be happy.”
“Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.”
“Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win.”
“Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.”
Source: Bodyguard: Survival
“Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.”
“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.”
“Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?”
“Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.”
“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”
Source: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
“Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.”
“Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.”
“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.”
“Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.”
“Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be stuck with your own life. It’s too little.”
“Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.”
Source: It's Your Time and Daily Readings from It's Your Time Boxed Set
“Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”
“Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.”
“Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.”
“Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.”
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!”
“Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.”
Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
“Don’t wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary “what if” scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.”
“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”
“Don’t waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.”
“Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.”
“Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”
Source: Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life
“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
“Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.”
“Don’t waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.”
“Don’t wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.”
“Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.”
“Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.”
Source: The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker
“Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.”
“Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You don’t have to be a botanist; you don’t have to be a bulldozer driver; you don’t have to be a fence builder; you don’t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.”
“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”
“Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.”
Source: Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
“Don’t worry about cool, make your own uncool.”
Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts
“Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)”
Source: Born of Night
“Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.”
Source: Four: A Divergent Collection
“Don’t worry about the money. Love the process.”
“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
“Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.”
Source: The Prince of Frogtown
“Don’t worry about your future, Washington will take care of everything for you.”
“Don’t worry if I lay my head back and start to snore while we’re flying. It’s normal. I’m just here in case Jake has a stroke and dies. (Tony)”
Source: Bad Attitude
“Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters