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“You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”
Source: Wooden: A Legacy in Words and Images (EBOOK)
“You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.”
“You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.”
“You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.”
Source: Unrequited
“You have to approach people with the truth and with love, and with what's right. I was determined to get the truth out because I knew that the truth would set me free.”
“YOU HAVE TO ASK HARD QUESTIONS.”
“You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?”
“You have to ask yourself a lot of questions and probably go to therapy to make sure that you're not someone who's in love with themselves. And also if you're vain enough, then you know that is a bad look!”
“You have to ask yourself a question: "What's the purpose of the private sector - to support government?" And if the answer is, "Yes, it is," then you're a Democrat.”
“You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.”
“You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.”
“You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'”
“You have to ask yourself, what are the things that matter to you most in your life? If you have to have a latte every day that'snice to have right now, but if you take that latte every day right now, you may wind up eating cat food when you are 70. And you have to decide which is worse.”
“You have to assemble your life yourself - action by action.”
Source: The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle
“You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.”
“You have to assess every situation that you're in and you have to decide, is this happening because I'm black? Is this happening because I'm a woman? Or is this happening because this is how it happens?”
“You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.”
“You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.”
“You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.”
“You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. The only way to defeat it is to build relationships with those people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.”
Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
“You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.”
“You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.”
“You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.”
“You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.”
“You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.”
“You have to be 100% sure [about brexit] because there's no going back on Friday morning and your decision could cost someone else their job.”
“You have to be a best friend to yourself. If you hate yourself then everyone else will see that and they won’t like you either. You have to be your own best friend. You can rely on yourself, Jack. You can trust yourself. That’s the secret. When you blame everyone else for your bad luck, it takes away your power to help yourself.”
Source: Happy Jack
“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”
“You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.”
“You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.”
Source: Rogues
“You have to be a freak in order to be different.”
Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story
“You have to be a friend to have them.”
Source: Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning
“You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.”
“You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.”
“You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.”
“You have to be a High value Man who is very selective with who he keeps in his life, who he keeps around them, and who to build with”
Source: Nothing But The Truth...
“You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.”
“You have to be a little aware of the emotions of the people who have invested with you.”
“You have to be a little bad to make history.”
Source: The Black Prism: Book 1 of Lightbringer
“You have to be a little bit crazy to run for president.”
“You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.”
“You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.”
“You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.”
“You have to be a little more flexible, mija. Life and work are full of challenges, and we have to be able to bend and sway... like the palm trees, you know?”
Source: An American Immigrant
“You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.”
“You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.”
“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”
“You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.”
“You have to be a man to understand why it’s important to cry and how to be there for others who cry.”
“You have to be a master to teach.”