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“You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.”
“You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”
“You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious about what you've written. You've got to open up and let the actors in, and re-conceive a lot of things.”
“You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.”
“You have to first believe in what you are, in what you can do, in what you say before you can make anybody believe in you.”
“You have to first experience what you want to express”
“You have to fix something when it first appears.”
“You have to focus on the finish line from the starting line.”
Source: Wake Up The Winner In You: Your Time Is Now
“You have to focus on the here and now. The future will work out itself.”
Source: Broken Pieces of Tomorrow: Strong women don't give up...They find a way through tears and thrills to love again...
“You have to focus on the process. You cannot be glued to the results.”
“You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.”
“You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.”
“You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.”
“You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.”
“You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.”
“You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.”
Source: Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't
“You have to follow where the poem leads. And it will surprise you. It will say things you didn't expect to say. And you look at the poem and you realize, 'That is truly what I felt.' That is truly what I saw.”
“You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.”
“You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.”
“You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can - buy me or not - but this is who I am as a writer.”
“You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.”
“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming.”
“You have to forgive everybody. It's the best beauty treatment.”
“You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.”
Source: More Than You Know
“You have to foul me to stop me, period.”
“You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.”
“You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.”
“You have to gather enough strength to go past a closed door like a jigsaw puzzle cut through wood. Keep pushing until you succeed.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.”
“You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.”
“You have to get all the training necessary and come up with something that can only be compared to the best in the world”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.”
“You have to get animals as cubs and raise them. You know, this was a long time ago. Nowadays, it's pretty hard for anybody to get any cubs of any kind. There's all sorts of restrictions. Game department gets involved with everything. The whole thing changed. I mean, there was a time I used to walk down Hollywood Boulevard with my lion on a chain.”
“You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.”
“You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you do . . . ultimately, ethics ends up an individual exercise.”
“You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.”
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings. The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense.”
“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.”
“You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.”
“You have to get hurt to get the good stuff, don't you see?...When you're a baby, you don't stop taking steps just because you've fallen once, or you'd never walk. The falls help you learn how to walk...to make balance and gait adjustments. If you never fell, you'd do something outrageously stupid...(Pages 271-272)”
Source: Happily Never After
“You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile, those are the people who have fought the toughest battles. Because they've decided that they're not going to let anything hold them down, they're showing the world who's boss. One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.”
“You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.”
“You have to get into the water and learn against what seems to be the law gravity to float and dancing, or athletics takes you years before you develop a skill. But if you work at it, practicing daily, you can enable your body to do things that are utterly impossible to an untrained physic.”
“You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.”
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.”
“You have to get lost before you can be found.”
Source: Light in the Mountains -- A Hoosier Quaker Finds Communal Enlightenment in Nepal
“You have to get lucky. Whether that's a good captain's pick, or two rookies combining for five points, if you get that, those are points you really aren't expecting.”