“There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.” PeopleTryingFootballExcitingDown AndBlowDefense Author:Robert Griffin III
“I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.” PeopleWantBelieveStillsStoriesI BelieveWasteDown AndGet Better Author:Jon Anderson
“The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called a balloon debate. The idea is there's a hot air balloon traveling across the Atlantic and it's going down and you have to give a speech as to why you should stay in the balloon. Six people are going to be chucked out and you want to stay.” PeopleWantGivingShouldIdeasDoneActingAirSeriousSpeechSixHotDown AndDebateImpressionBalloonsWeird ThingsHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Tom Hiddleston
“When I can do an acoustic set, I can sit down and sing. And then when I have a huge arena full of people, there's nothing like that. It's the coolest feeling in the world, but I also like to play small intimate shows because I feel you can connect a little more. And that's something I had to learn - how to connect to a big audience versus the small one.” PeopleWorldFeelsLittlesI CanPlayShowsFeelingsBigsCan DoAudienceHugeDown AndIntimateVersusArenaAcoustics Author:Avril Lavigne
“You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.” PeopleMatterWaitingAcceptingDown AndPrepared Author:Chris Patten
“Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsStoriesAudienceLaughingMinutesFrontsGive MeDown AndInstinctKicksEditingSay Anything Author:Steve Martin
“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.” PeopleThinkingFeetRocksBalanceDown AndAssumingTricksNosesBoardsTimingTailsIntuitiveUp And DownManuals Author:Tony Hawk
“Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there - I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsMadeIdeasDoneMotivationalFilmEffortPayWatchesDown AndAgreeScreensCinemaMy TimeSincerityOnly TimeSubjectiveUnifyingWasting My Time Author:Christopher Nolan
“In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it's a big shitshow full of uneducated people.” PeopleWayWholeBigsLightArtistLinesIssuesIndustryInternetDown AndLaysEsteemCommentInherentMusic IndustryBaitUneducatedMosquitoesCatering Author:Willis Earl Beal
“People aren't problems to be fixed. People are people, for us to walk alongside and journey with and help pick up the pieces with and, when they drop them again, to get back down and help them pick them up again. And that's real love - without condition and without expectation.” PeopleRealHelpingProblemWalksPiecesJourneyConditionsPicksExpectationsDown AndFixedGet BackReal Love Author:Brooke Fraser
“When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing. A lot of the stuff people hate, they really don't. They only look at the outer shell. They don't really get into it.” PeopleLooksHateStuffDifferencesOpinionCreatingSittingDown AndShellsSitting DownFiascoDifferences Of Opinion Author:Lupe Fiasco
“One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.” PeopleWorldFirstsGovernmentYoungUsedLeftDemocracyPolicyInternetCitizensOfficeFirst TimeOrganizationDown AndFoundationChinaI RealizedChineseDictatorshipEpidemicsSars Author:William J. Clinton
“I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.” PeopleWayMayDifferentReasonTalkingParticularDependsInvolvedProjectsSittingDown AndIndependentScriptsFeaturesSitting Down Author:Jimmy Smits
“You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden bursts of light, they're very small and they're very short and it's the pursuit of the idea that's the important thing. . . . I know a lot of people who have way better ideas than I do that-much more frequently than I do that just can't sit down and actually do it. Ideas are such are a little overrated really; it's the work behind the idea that's the important thing.” PeopleKnowsWayKindLittlesImportantIdeasLightSeemsBehindsDown AndImportant ThingsPursuitEpiphanyOverrated Author:Nick Cave
“Imagine if somebody were to really sit down with Osama bin Ladin and say, 'Listen man, what is it that you're so angry at me about that you're willing to have people strap bombs to themselves, or get inside of airplanes and fly them into buildings?' That would be the miracle if we can get, sit down and talk to our enemies and find a way for them to hear us.” PeopleIfsMenWayWould BeEnemyImagineBuildingWillingMiracleDown AndAngryBombsAirplane Author:Matthew Modine
“All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.” PeopleLooksBeautyMissingOne DayDown AndSeriousnessPlayfulnessSandcastles Author:Rajneesh
“When I think about what makes Canada great, fresh water is right at the top of the list. We have over two million lakes in this country and more than enough people who are willing to mess with them. My Canada includes weird scientists who are devoted to keeping our water clean. When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingWellsTwoCountryEnoughMightWaterMillionsWillingGiving UpScientistDown AndCleanListsMessTheeCanadaLakesDevotedPledgeFresh Water Author:Rick Mercer
“After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made contact with the five other people at my university who were interested in writing; and through them, and some of my teachers, I discovered that there was a whole subterranean Wonderland of Canadian writing that was going on just out of general earshot and sight.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsMadeTwoWholeFiveTeacherNormalSightDown AndUniversityContactWonderland Author:Margaret Atwood
“People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.” PeopleIfsYearsWellsLooksMayWarStatesNumbersCasesThousandConflictDown AndAverageGenocideFewerInvolvingKoreanHigh PointsKorean War Author:Andrew Mack
“The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.” PeopleHumorFunnyFallRolesHumourDown AndBottomFalling Down Author:Alan Coren
“Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCreativityProductsDown AndObstaclesFinishedTunesPolishedFragmentedBiggest Obstacles Author:Jeff Mangum
“Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.” PeopleCitiesMovementEuropeTownsDown AndRoseSpreadSmellLandscapeUrbanOrganizeSlow DownSlow FoodUrban Landscape Author:Carl Honore
“When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"” PeopleWritingWellsBookDoneDown AndGladSatNot InterestedWriting A Book Author:Lewis Black
“Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.” PeopleThinkingWritingDown AndPoetry Is Author:Charles Bukowski
“You've got to appeal to the pride in people. When a woman is flabby and soft, she's unattractive. When you married a beautiful girl and all of a sudden you start seeing her tits down and her breath stinks and she's not clean anymore and has no pride in herself, you can't love her. You may bullshit yourself, but you can't. Energy makes people beautiful. That's what charisma is.” PeopleMayBeautifulGirlEnergySeeingPrideMarriedBreathsDown AndCleanAppealsBullshitCharismaStinkUnattractiveBeautiful Girl Author:Jack LaLanne
“I think a lot of people believe that they have to be poor to serve God, that they can't have anything. They don't really even know how to give. And one of the main principles in the Bible is you'll reap what you sew, and that if you give into the lives of others, that it shall be given back to you, good measure, pressed down and shaken together. If you go plant one tomato seed, you don't get back one tomato; you get a vine of tomatoes.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingBelieveTogetherGivenPoorPrinciplesKnow HowDown AndPlantSeedsServing GodReapVinesLives Of OthersTomatoes Author:Joyce Meyer
“When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsMeanChildrenBookFactsKidsEvilForceCasesNiceHappenedStrangeHorrorDown AndTiedHostilityReally MeanFadsOmenExorcist Author:Stephen King
“Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.” PeopleLongHoursPerspectiveConversationSittingDown AndPrivilegeBrilliantSitting Down Author:Joe Rogan
“My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.” PeopleNeedsFeelsDifferentSometimesMightGamesDependsMessagesMusic IsCatDown AndSentencesFeel GoodGet UpDifferent ThingsGhettoHow You Feel Author:Young Jeezy
“The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.” PeopleWarCausesMilitaryFieldsHigherDiseaseTrainingDown AndRateBoardsCokeAtlantaRecruitMalariaPlantationsFatality Author:Bill Gates
“I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that, or a specific subject. The songs actually kind of write themselves.” PeopleWritingKindSongSubjectsDown And Author:Creed Bratton
“If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.” PeopleIfsPersonsCountryEasyDown AndIncludingInnocentConvinceApartheid Author:Nelson Mandela
“We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.” PeopleIfsNeedsLongMightSpeakRealizingDarkConsequenceDown AndFedsTunnelsCo2 Author:Wes Jackson
“No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.” PeopleIdeasMomentsLaughingJokesDown AndDefenseGood IdeasSlips Author:George Carlin
“I'm going to be cremated from the neck down. And at my funeral, when people are talking about me, they have to hold my head. And then at the end, they have to kick me into the audience and the audience has to keep me up for at least three hits or you have to start the whole service over. No cradling it - I want legit sets.” PeopleWantEndsWholeHumorFunnyThreeTalkingAudienceDown AndKicksNecksFuneralTalking About MeLegit Author:Daniel Tosh
“I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time and sometimes it's up and sometimes it down and sometimes it sideways with a hint of s smile.” PeopleFeelsSometimesDown AndMoodHintsBrillianceAffirmingSidewaysLife Affirming Author:Eliza Doolittle
“I set goals, but they're mostly very personal goals. I never try and set a goal where 'I want to win this,' or 'I want to do this,' where other people can affect what I do. If I want to swim a new best time, I sit down and work out the best way of doing that. Whether I can shave a few tenths of a second off a turn or the start, my goal is putting them all together in a race. That's the way I set my goals.” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingI CanTogetherTurnsWinningGoalRaceDown AndWork OutBest WaySwimSetting GoalsBest TimesPersonal Goal Author:Liam Tancock
“Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.” PeopleGivingFeelsPersonsDoneHandsTogetherGrowsAbilityFeetTenDown AndCookingSelf ConfidenceTallInvites Author:William Katt
“People are used to being stimulated. People are drunk on entertainment and when you're going out and seeing movies where 200 people are machine gunned down and vampires are tearing people's throats out, and I'm not saying that is bad or it should be censored, but people are drunk on stimuli.” PeopleShouldUsedSeeingMachinesDown AndEntertainmentDrunkVampireThroatGoing OutStimulusCensored Author:Alex Jones
“When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldWritingFirstsKindIdeasHappensSongCoursesStuffMagicTvsDown AndPiano Author:Trey Parker
“Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories.” PeopleStoriesMotherDaughterDown AndGuiltyPassed AwayOlder People Author:Mabel Cheung
“I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.” PeopleChildrenLawMotherFatherInspiringMoralityDown AndBrokeMothers DayGood FatherEldest Author:Wilbur Smith
“I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."” PeopleLooksStrongLaughingTheoryDown AndUpsetDead PeopleLooking Down Author:Sark
“Many times people can access that being stage more fully and more easily if at first you are actually doing something. If you run, or dance, or do something kind of vigorous, and let the energy release, then sometimes it's easier to sit or lie down and then feel at ease and rest and be quiet and move inside.” PeopleIfsFeelsFirstsKindSometimesRunningMovingLyingEnergyStageEasierQuietDown AndAccessReleaseEaseVigorousActually Doing Something Author:Shakti Gawain
“We've lost our way, we have lost our centeredness. We don't have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what's important. I would bet most people don't have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don't have to be sitting, they can be walking.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantLostMinutesWalkingSittingDown AndThirtyWho We AreWhat's ImportantCenteredness Author:Alan Lightman
“A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times is hard, people can hear a rapper that inspires them to do what they [are] supposed to do.” PeopleFeelsHardPlayInspireSeriousDown AndHip HopHipsHopsRapperListening To Music Author:Rakim
“Find something you love and commit. Commit 100%. Put your head down, and work as hard as you can. Make it as best you can, and that's all you can really do. It doesn't sound like much, but lots of people don't do the work. And it's not men or women. Lots of people like to be the director, but don't like to do a lot of the work that is sometimes quite tedious.” PeopleMenSometimesHardSoundDirectorsDown AndCommitTediousSomething You Love Author:Jen McGowan
“A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.” PeopleTreeDown And Author:Carl Sandburg
“Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me” PeopleGuySleepKnowingToughTestsDown AndKnocked DownTough Guy Author:Keith Thurman
“I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.” PeopleThinkingWritingFirstsBookHandsMightTogetherSeeingSittingDown AndDeeperAttachmentSentimentalBindingSitting DownMuch Love Author:Edwidge Danticat