“I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.” IfsEndsMightKidsRaceGoneCoupleSelf ConfidenceWinnerStubbornDrains Author:Truman Capote
“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.” YearsEndsRealityLevelsStageProductsCoupleBuiltManagementRoseIncludingMarketingLoyaltyUsersFadesVersusMicrosoft Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEndsUseFoundToo MuchStyleInformationCoupleInternetExcitingLibraryVariousVanityAcquireButtonsMediocreTrickyOld DaysDisagreeableEncyclopediaToo Much Information Author:Norman Mailer
“A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.” EndsSpiritIndividualCommunityCommonAchieveCoupleMembersRelationMereSpeciesIndividualityPrivacyUnitsTribesHippieFree SpiritInteractingScum Author:Valerie Solanas
“With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.” WritingMindEndsFilmActorsCasesWrittenProductsBearsCoupleSceneCamerasNotesScriptsCastingResemblanceScribblesBudgeting Author:Woody Allen
“During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsImportantRealEndsCountryEnoughWantedCoursesSpeakCommunityLossParticularCoupleGrievingPresidencyComfortingPrioritizeDevastating Loss Author:Barack Obama
“People abhor boxing, and I agree, but I admire men and women who can stand in a ring like that, nowhere to hide. I've only been to a couple of boxing matches, and they're different from any other event. I'm not there to see blood; I'm there for the heart of someone being able to get up and keep going. And for the respect that's often there in the end.” PeopleMenHeartDifferentEndsAbleBloodEventsCoupleMen And WomenAgreeRingsAdmireGet UpBoxingKeep GoingBoxing Matches Author:Markus Zusak
“I think the thing that he wants even more that would solidify his position would be a couple championships. Hopefully we can get that done. Peyton Manning is already in the conversation of the greatest player to ever play and if he wins one or two more, he probably ends up being the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.” IfsThinkingWantTwoEndsDonePlayWould BeGamesWinningPlayerPositionCoupleConversationHopefullyChampionshipQuarterbackPeyton Author:John Elway
“A readers eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.” MayEndsStoriesEyePoliticalDevelopmentReaderCoupleNeighborPakistanParagraphTariffs Author:Donald E. Graham
“As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I totally get it.' So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it's the word 'hope' on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids.” WayYearsFirstsEndsStoriesKidsLeftSawsArmsCoupleYears AgoTattooDotsOh My Gosh Author:Kristian Bush
“I'm really conscious of the amount of food I eat, but I don't deny myself anything. For example, I have a really big sweet tooth. At the end of the night, if I'm craving ice cream, I might not have the bowl that I would have when I was a kid, but I'll put a couple of scoops in a coffee mug, and I'll eat it slowly, and I enjoy every moment of it.” IfsEndsMomentsBigsMightKidsNightEnjoyExampleSweetAmountCoupleConsciousDenyCoffeeTeethIceBowlsCreamIce CreamCravingMugSweet ToothCoffee Mug Author:Summer Sanders
“I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.” WorldYearsEndsLastsGuyFiveMovementCoupleHarderSeriesEightNineRelyThrowingLast YearLocationNinetyEightyWorld SeriesMph Author:Andy Pettitte
“When a couple gets to the last stage, one or both partners may have an affair. But an affair is usually a symptom of a dying marriage, not the cause. The end of that marriage could have been predicted long before either spouse strayed.” MayLongHas BeensEndsLastsCausesStageDyingCoupleAffairPartnersSpouseSymptomsCould Have BeenAdultery Author:John M. Gottman
“I've done a couple of movies for scale, and it's the only way to get a lot of these independent movies made. The actors negotiate deals where they're given just enough money to live on during the filming, but then they participate in the back-end. If the movie suddenly makes a gazillion dollars, we'll participate in that profit.” IfsWayMadeEndsDoneEnoughActorsGivenDealsCoupleIndependentDollarsProfitScales Author:Kevin Kline
“Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage is the end of the story, but I actually think a really funny couple could be a fun thing to watch.” IfsThinkingBookEndsStoriesTogetherFightingFunWatchesCoupleJaneAustenFun Things Author:Mindy Kaling
“I don't go to an office, so I write at home. I like to write in the morning, if possible; that's when my mind is freshest. I might write for a couple of hours, and then I head out to have lunch and read the paper. Then I write for a little bit longer if I can, then probably go to the library or make some phone calls. Every day is a little bit different. I'm not highly routinized, so I spend a lot of time wandering around New York City with my laptop in my bag, wondering where I'm going to end up next. It's a fairly idyllic life for someone who likes writing.” IfsWritingMindLittlesI CanDifferentEndsHomeMightNextBitsHoursCitiesWonderMorningNew YorkCoupleOfficePaperLittle BitLibraryPhonesLikesWanderBagsNew York CityLunchPhone CallsLaptopsWandering AroundIdyllic Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“One thing that I've realized is that you're never going to be 100 percent successful. You're always going to be let down. When you have God in your life and you follow Christ, you're never going to be let down. Every time that you fail, He's there to pick you right back up. Every time you think the world's going to end because you had a couple of bad games, God's there to remind you that's not what it's all about.” ThinkingWorldEndsGamesChristSuccessfulFailingOne ThingCouplePicksPercentLet DownBad Games Author:Mark Teixeira
“I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.” WritingEndsMomentsStoriesWantedCoupleThat Moment Author:Julie Delpy
“Bullingdon would never go co-ed. I'm not going to give anything away, but there are a couple of girls involved in our story and it doesn't end well for anyone.” GivingWellsEndsStoriesGirlCoupleInvolved Author:Max Irons
“After watching a couple of live performances of bands like Nirvana, I was really excited and inspired by how raw and powerful it was. I wanted to at least aim in that direction with the guitar and do my own version of it. I know it doesn't really sound like that on the other end, but I wanted guitar, heavy rhythms, and singing to be the stamp of the whole thing.” KnowsEndsWholeWantedSoundMy OwnPowerfulCoupleBandSingingPerformancesAimInspiredGuitarExcitedHeavyVersionsRhythmStampsLive Performance Author:Panda Bear
“Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.” IfsWellsBookDifferentEndsCountryMatterFactsUseLanguageTermMillionsFiveNew YorkBrotherCoupleBlessedImpactDareExpectedMy BrotherIf I CouldCopiesOverwhelmedNew York TimesMatter Of FactDifferent CountriesLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.” FeelsEndsFilmBitsCuttingCoupleSceneShots Author:Brian Helgeland
“Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.” FirstsWellsTwoEndsMomentsPastThreeNumbersFourCuttingWeekLandCoupleMajorsThirdsInnovationAverageDecadesGoodsSiteIntroductionDeliveryOver The PastTransactionsMajor Change Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“There were a couple of times that we did end up moving the set [of Helix] outside to shoot some of the outside scenes, just because we needed a bit more space, and that ended up being a little bit more helpful and easier to breathe, when you're dealing with some of the fake snow stuff. It was a lot of fun, and it looks amazing.” LooksLittlesEndsMovingFunStuffBitsSpaceCoupleNeededEasierSceneLittle BitBreatheSnowFakeHelpful Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“Mothers love you to the end, and she didn't want to hold me back from my livelihood. So I left for a month and called her every couple of days. I came home and she died 24 hours later.” WantEndsHomeMotherLeftHoursLove YouMonthsCoupleDiedLivelihoodHold MeMother Love Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.” EndsCharacterActionLinesCoupleDumbExplosions Author:John Cusack
“I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.” IfsThinkingYearsMadeEndsEnoughWholeChoicesProcessHellNiceCoupleMetsLuckyElementsLet MeLike MeBest ThingsKicksInterviewsMusic BusinessPubsGreat ExperiencesBurnt OutFalseness Author:Rick Astley
“When I arrived in America at the end of 1967, my only purpose was to observe (for a couple of months) my idols, which were mostly instrumentalists. I wanted to play jazz, not sing it.” EndsPlayWantedAmericaPurposeMonthsCoupleJazzIdolsInstrumentalists Author:Flora Purim
“The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them.” KnowsWantHumansWellsMayChildrenEndsHelpingUseSpiritualSidesLove IsCoupleMusicianSmokeMarijuanaHumankindGiftedGeneticsSullenGenomeWho God Is Author:Francis Collins
“That's such a wonderful thing about the mixing process is when you write the demo or the track, [and] it sort of goes through a couple of different changes and you don't really know what tracks are going to end up working out.” KnowsWritingDifferentEndsProcessWonderfulCoupleTrackWork OutWonderful ThingsMixingDemos Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“I concluded that I'm a competitor. And, whatever happens, you keep leading. You can't fear anybody. Why? Because at the end of the day, I might not be in this job a couple of years from now. I'm here to win.” YearsEndsMightHappensJobsWinningCoupleThe End Of The DayCompetitorsWhatever Happens Author:Masai Ujiri
“I try not to write more than two or three, I try to just write one if possible, I write till the end at least a draft of a play or a novel; but sometimes, I'll take a break for a couple weeks for a project that is paying me money like a television project which I try to stay away from just to stay financially ahead of the game.” IfsWritingTryingTwoEndsSometimesPlayThreeGamesBreakNovelWeekTelevisionCoupleProjectsTill The EndAhead Of The Game Author:Adam Rapp
“A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.” WayWantYearsFirstsBookEndsWholeCharacterMightAgeNextProcessIssuesHappenedCoupleLettersAgingSeriesCornersNew YearJuneAugustAlphabetNew Years EveMain CharactersAging ProcessLetters Of The Alphabet Author:Sue Grafton
“Conflicts often stem from a couple of leaders on both sides that are badly brought up. They'd rather go to war than compromise. And in business, you're competing with other companies all the time, but you don't end up going to war with each other.” WarEndsSidesCompanyLeaderCoupleConflictCompromiseStemCompetingBoth SidesGoing To War Author:Richard Branson
“I keep a couple of notebooks too into which I record ideas for story titles or characters or situations, and these notes help me quite a bit when I'm feeling at loose ends and not sure of what to work on next.” IdeasEndsCharacterHelpingStoriesFeelingsNextBitsSituationRecordsCoupleNotesTitlesNot SureHelp MeNotebookLoose Ends Author:Christine Sneed
“I'm living in Los Angeles for a couple of years. I've been a gypsy for quite a while. It'll come to an end. I'm going to come back to New York.” YearsEndsNew YorkCoupleLos AngelesGypsy Author:Garry Winogrand
“Osho used me and Shunyo (my girlfriend at the time) as an example of how he envisioned men and women should relate. He shared a story he had often told in discourse of a man and woman who lived at opposite ends of a lake. They were deeply in love but only met by chance when sometimes out rowing on the water. He said it was beautiful how Shunyo and I met like this couple. When we had the feeling to be together, we would meet and enjoy. And when we were apart, we were also happy and content in our aloneness.” MenShouldSaidEndsSometimesStoriesFeelingsTogetherBeautifulUsedEnjoyWaterChanceExampleCoupleMetsMen And WomenOppositesRelateGirlfriendLakesDiscourseMy GirlfriendRowingHappy And ContentDeeply In Love Author:Swami Anand Milarepa
“There's nothing new. I think that's the weird thing for me. Over the last couple of months, the keep-fit shows, and then at the end of it you get to lose weight and one of you is going to win a million dollars - that's not real. In many ways, even 10 years ago that wouldn't have worked.” ThinkingWayYearsRealEndsShowsLastsWinningLosesMillionsMonthsCoupleFitYears AgoWeightDollarsMillion DollarsLose WeightWeird ThingsNothing New Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking of a young couple. They had two kids. They described themselves as Christian. They oppose gay marriage. And they were saying that even though they didn't like Donald Trump, they were thinking of voting for him. And one of the reasons was they felt that they were - their very views were making them socially unacceptable. They were feeling a little alienated from the world.” ThinkingWorldLittlesTwoEndsReasonFeelingsKidsChristianYoungFeltViewsCitiesTrumpCoupleGayDemocraticCampaignsVotingVotersGay MarriageRaleighYoung Couples Author:Steve Inskeep
“We got to be really good friends [Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau]. It was just thrilling, every day. Every single day. I had a big couple of musical numbers in [Out to Sea], and I remember doing one of them and shooting it from beginning to end.” EndsBigsRememberNumbersSeaCoupleMusicalShootingGood FriendThrillingReally Good Friends Author:Brent Spiner
“You know, when your poisoning your body night after night after night, you end up chipping a couple years off your life. I've always wanted to be able to do this and now that I am, it's hard to complain.” KnowsYearsEndsHardBodyAbleWantedNightCoupleComplainingYour BodyPoisoning Author:Mac DeMarco
“We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try to ... not educate, but inform the animators [about] what the lighting looks like, but [in the end] they do it themselves. I don't actually go and sit there with them. [We] just had a couple of conversations.” ThinkingTryingLooksIdeasEndsStuffInterestingCoupleConversationEducateVery InterestingLightingConsultingAnimator Author:Janusz Kaminski
“A novel may take anywhere from two to five years to write and, in the end, you might manage a couple of thousand dollars on it, no more.” WritingYearsMayTwoEndsMightNovelFiveCoupleThousandDollarsManageFive Years Author:Mordecai Richler
“A lot of people put out albums with sort of crappy songs and a couple of singles because they know no one's going to listen to it anyway. We very much wanted it to be something that you do listen to from beginning to end and had a narrative that was important.” PeopleKnowsImportantEndsWantedSongCoupleAlbumsNarrativeSingles Author:Jamie Hewlett
“When you're making art, there's a lot of self-importance attached to that, but at the end of the day, you can always fall back on the fact that it's just a play. It's not like the Iraq War or something. We're not causing anybody any harm, other than a couple hours of a wasted evening.” ArtWarEndsSelfPlayFactsFallHoursCoupleImportanceIraqHarmEveningThe End Of The DayIraq WarFall BackSelf-importance Author:Glen Berger