U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.”
“Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.”
Source: Molly Withers and the Golden Tree
“Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.”
Source: Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help Others Reach Their Full Potential
“Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!”
Source: Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires
“Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.”
“Unless you work for it you never know how it feels, when you start working you'll know how it is. That's called realization of experience.”
Peace”
Source: “The Light” It's You - Thutop
“Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and episode, and then leaves. I'd much rather produce television and occasionally direct an episode of a show I'm producing, then just come in as an outside director.”
“Unless you're a psycho, there's no such thing as a vampire and there's no such thing as a werewolf. But there certainly are people who could be controlled by a drug like Scopolamine, to lose all will and do your bidding. That's what the whole voodoo zombie thing was about, with chemical mind control, so it is possible to have real zombies. Maybe the [doomsday] preppers weren't so wrong. I thought they were idiots. How can you prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”
“Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.”
“Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.”
Source: Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me
“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
“Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.”
“Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.”
“Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.”
“Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?”
“Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.”
“Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.”
“Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.”
“Unless you're living in your truth, you're slowly killing yourself.”
“Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.”
“Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.”
“Unless you're not pushing yourself, you're not living to the fullest. You can't be afraid to fail, but unless you fail, you haven't pushed hard enough."”
“Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.”
“Unless you're one of the five billionaires out there who don't have to worry about anything, every aspect of everything is stressful, no matter what your job is.”
“Unless you're playing a real character based on a real person, if someone else has done it before, you're probably better off not watching it as an actor. Otherwise you end up trying to copy someone else.”
“Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.”
“Unless you're really going to have a serious relationship, don't bring your kids into it. Don't show your child that people come and go.”
“Unless you're Shannon Hoon (of Blind Melon), dying is the only thing that guarantees a rock star will have a legacy that stretches beyond temporary relevance.”
“Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.”
“Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.”
“Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.”
“Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a writer, my interest has become in writing about much more emotional, personal topics. I'm trying to reach into subjects I have never written about before.”
“Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.”
“Unless you're willing to fight and refight the same battles until you go blue in the face, drive the people you work with nuts going over every detail to make certain you've got it right, and then take hit after unfair hit accusing you of bias, there's no use even trying. You have to love it, and I do. You just hope it strikes a spark somewhere in the critical mass of public opinion and helps some people to resist further the seductions of political and corporate advertising.”
“Unless you're willing to look a little foolish, forget the possibility of becoming great.”
“Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.”
“Unless you've a lot of passion about this, you're not gonna survive. You're gonna give it up. So you've got to have an idea or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not gonna have the perseverance to stick it through. I think it's half the battle right there.”
“Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, [topping off the gas tank] may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.”
“Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.”
“Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.”
“Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.”
“Unless your aim is to deceive, there's not a meaningful distinction between memoir and fiction. They're marketing categories.”
“Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.”
“Unless your campaign has a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.”
“Unless your freedom turns into a creative realization, you will feel sad. Because you will see that you are free-your chains are broken, and you are no longer in prison; you are standing under the starry night, completely free. But where do you go?”
“Unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.”
“Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.”
Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States
“Unless your ideas are ridiculed by experts, they are worth nothing.”
“Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.”