“You don't have to fit into a particular box. You fit into a box that you're comfortable in, and you'll attract people with like minds. It took me a while to figure this out, but there are many ideals. You have to figure right what's best for you and that will radiate out of you. I think a certain amount of letting go and being brave and not being afraid to make mistakes to get there.” PeopleThinkingMindCertainMistakeFiguresParticularAmountFitLetting GoComfortableIdealsBraveBoxesMaking MistakesBeing Afraid Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.” PeopleKindI CanBookRememberSongReadingFoundDadFitMovedStructureMy DadStoresAll KindsRelateHatedSongwritingSchedules Author:Larkin Grimm
“I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across.” PeopleWantKindFunLike YouCoupleFitMessagesConnectionsAskingExposureBlogsI Like YouMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall
“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.” PeopleKnowsWantWellsKindTodayYoungSocialGrowing UpGrowingFitPressureEmbraceSocial Pressure Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi
“People who are following their dreams inspire me. I train at this relatively new gym in West Hollywood called Training Mate. It's owned by a former Australian football player named Luke Milton. The classes are mostly taught by other Australians that are just like Luke: fit, funny, cute, and approachable. Now they're talking about opening another location. He will open another location and be successful because he's following his dream. People like him inspire me because they make me think I can do it too.” PeopleThinkingI CanDreamCan DoTalkingClassSuccessfulPlayerFootballInspireTaughtFitTrainingHollywoodTrainWestFollowingOpeningFormerCuteBeing SuccessfulGymMatesLocationAustralianLukeI Can Do ItFootball PlayerMiltonWest Hollywood Author:Dayna Devon
“People will always put you in a box that they think you fit in, and it's up to you to not fall into it.” PeopleThinkingFallFitBoxesUp To You Author:Tricia Helfer
“'m starting to get a swimming physique, which I'm very pleased about, because for me that's the most appealing male physique. It's not show-y off-y Mr Muscle, "Look how much I can bench." It's just a real lean, athletic figure and it doesn't look like you try too hard. When you see people who have huge biceps, it looks like they're in the gym all day. But I think there's a difference between looking muscly and being fit.” PeopleThinkingTryingLooksI CanRealHardShowsDifferencesFiguresHugeLike YouFitMalesStartingMusclesGymSwimmingAthleticBenchesPhysiqueBiceps Author:Greg James
“Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” PeopleYoungTimeBusinessYouthJudgingFitProjectsInventionExecutionBe YoungNew ProjectsYouth Life Author:Francis Bacon
“You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksTwoCountryStatesBigsUnitedUnited StatesFitThirdsSizeMapsContinents Author:Baron Vaughn
“So if I can give anyone advice in this business on love and balancing, it's that you truly have to take a second, step back, to figure out who you are and what you want. And it is okay if those people around you don't fit into that. Because what you don't want to do is end up living your life for someone else.” PeopleIfsWantGivingI CanEndsStepsAdviceFiguresFitOkayWho You AreWhat You WantLive Your Life Author:Eva Marcille
“Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.” PeopleWantFeelsI CanHateFoundHurtHonestSeriousFitClubsTongueBrutalPhonyHonest PeopleBaloney Author:Jackee Harry
“I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.” PeopleThinkingWorldNumbersFitCompetitionSignificantSignificant Numbers Author:Paul Lansky
“Portraying this character [Diwata] has really given me an opportunity to get in touch with that side of myself, which I haven't been for a few years. And I do know what it's like to be different from people around you and not fit into the prototypical mold of what America sort of thinks a girl "should be."” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldYearsDifferentCharacterAmericaGirlOpportunityGivenSidesHavensFitMoldPortraying Author:Sarah Steele
“People seem generally happy to see their favorite world come to life, even if it it slightly changed to fit storytelling for television.” PeopleIfsWorldSeemsChangedTelevisionFitStorytelling Author:Jade Hassoune
“Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.” PeopleFeelsHateStuffSpaceFansStageFrontsFitMusicianRootsPerformancesPopsGet UpPunkHate YouWeirdoStooges Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.” PeopleThinkingGivingAblePurposeSongFitLogicAppropriateDjs Author:A-Trak
“We need to accept that some people are camp and some people are butch. Some people are pretty and some people are average, but we all fit.” PeopleNeedsAcceptingFitAverageCamps Author:John Amaechi
“People think I'm being stupid or false humble. It's not. I don't think I always fit in. Maybe it's a complex you get as someone who has always been fighting on the outside.” PeopleThinkingFightingStupidFitComplexesHumbleFighting OnBeing Stupid Author:Jeremy Scott
“There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.” PeopleHelpingUseLightNaturalLearningFitBenefitsHarmLight And Knowledge Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.” PeopleIfsI CanIdeasSocialFitEastNo IdeaWealthyCoastHarvardElitistEast Coast Author:Tommy Lee Jones
“What does he [Pope Francis] mean, "Who am I to judge?" People think he's fantastic, but they also wonder how some of these pieces fit.” PeopleThinkingMeanDoeWonderPiecesJudgingFitFantasticPope Author:Ralph Martin
“People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.” PeopleKindLongAgeJobsYoungValuesSocialTermWillingFitLong TermGuaranteesHopsSocial Values Author:Stewart D. Friedman
“People are going to always have their opinions whether you date a black man or not. I've had girlfriends, family members comment on black men that I've dated as well as white people. People want to see what they want to see. And if anybody doesn't fit that picture they're going to be like, 'Yeah, I didn't see you with him.'” PeopleIfsMenWantWellsBlackWhiteOpinionFitMembersYeahGirlfriendCommentFamily MembersFamily Friends Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...” PeopleThinkingImportantJobsLevelsFitProgramKillingSizePullingEntryWorkforceOne Size Fits All Author:Paul Ryan
“There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMindStillsFactsUsedStuffProcessPiecesMinutesInformationMaterialsFitSmartMaking MoneyExtrasLockedNew ThingsConventionalOpen MindDvdsReally SmartConventional Ways Author:Alex Stapleton
“I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.” PeopleThinkingBlackWhiteRaceGroupsMomDadFitMy DadMy MomAsianMexicanDanish Author:Jessica Alba
“Now we know everything about golf equipment. A player doesn't have to know diddly about golf clubs, because we know what a golf club can do and how it can fit to you. I hate to harp on my era because people don't like that, but 30 years back was so different. I didn't have maxed-out clubs. The clubs now are amazing.” PeopleKnowsYearsDifferentHateCan DoPlayerFitI HateGolfClubsErasEquipmentHarpsGolf Clubs Author:Nick Faldo
“I am driven by love and I have been in love with a handful of different people, men and women. It's like, if you go to a bookstore and you know exactly what kind of book you want, you have to look it up in the system because it's in a specific section of the bookstore. I fit into a handful of sections in the bookstore.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantLooksKindHas BeensBookDifferentFitMen And WomenDrivenSectionsDifferent PeoplesHandfulBookstoresBeen In Love Author:Nico Tortorella
“I come from a nation where fantastic fiction has a very low status, unless it fits into some very specific categories or is written by already established authors. I don't by any means try to hide what I write, but the way people think in categories here is pretty extreme: it blots out discussing the actual work on its own terms. That's made me loath to talk about my own work in terms of genre, because once you get a label, it sticks and poof go a slew of potential readers and reviewers because eww, fantasy cooties.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingMeanMadeNationsTermMy OwnFictionFantasyWrittenReaderFitLowsSticksExtremesFantasticLabelsGenreCategoriesDiscussingReviewersCooties Author:Karin Tidbeck
“[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if you ace the audition. It's just about getting to know people, not about who's a better actor a lot of the time. It's about who fits that particular suit, you know?” PeopleIfsKnowsActorsRolesParticularFitDirectorsSuitsAuditionsReassuringAcesSuits You Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“I would have people send me shoes and I had 40 pairs and none would fit in the dorm room. People would come by and be like, "Yo, I've been looking for these shoes." I was like, "I'll sell them to you for $300 right now." I'd sell them, save up $4,000 to $5,000, go to the mall and just buy a bunch of new stuff.” PeopleStuffRoomsFitRight NowSellsShoesBunchPairsMallsNew StuffDormsDorm Rooms Author:Iman Shumpert
“I think it would help if, when people are first ordained, they underwent a period of strict training, maybe for several years. During this time they would learn basic Buddhist philosophy in a monastic community where all the teaching and training was directed toward living a perfect monastic life and wasn't channeled out to fit into the lay life - which is what usually happens in Dharma centers where the teachings are directed toward how to live the Dharma in your everyday life.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsFirstsPhilosophyHelpingHappensCommunityPerfectTeachingPeriodsFitTrainingLaysEverydayBuddhistStrictEveryday LifeDharmaMonastic LifeBuddhist Philosophy Author:Tenzin Palmo
“The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.” PeopleDoeDifferentStatesBigsStreetsWallFitElementsMajorsClintonOperationsDepartmentGearsSaudisCogsGoldman SachsHilary Clinton Author:Julian Assange
“I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed. It is a religion that works against you because the template don't fit. It's not human, you know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHumansLittlesReligiousFitUnhappyHappy PeopleRepressedUnhappy People Author:Jerry Garcia
“My start came with experimental musicians and live bands. I never played with DJ's because it wasn't really the correct fit. It fit in more with someone using a laptop to create their own electronic music. When you're doing music like that, it's hard to get more than 20 people to come to your show.” PeopleHardShowsFitBandMusicianDjsLaptopsElectronic Music Author:Girl Talk
“I know that some of the folks in the press are uptight about this [moving the press corps out of the West Wing ], and I understand. What we're - the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press - and for the people listening to this that don't know this, that the press room that people see on TV is very, very tiny. Forty-nine people fit in that press room.” PeopleKnowsMovingRoomsTvsListeningFitPressesWingsWestFolksTinyNineFortyConferencesInitialsPress ConferencesUptight Author:Reince Priebus
“That is the White House, where you can fit four times the amount of people in the press conference, allowing more press, more coverage from all over the country to have those press conferences. That's what we're talking about.” PeopleCountryHouseWhiteTalkingFourAmountFitPressesWhite HouseAllowingConferencesCoveragePress Conferences Author:Reince Priebus
“People still look askance at a kid in the supermarket who's pitching a fit and think the parent is not sufficiently in control or not being sufficiently punitive. That's an issue for a lot of parents as well.” PeopleThinkingWellsLooksStillsKidsParentIssuesFitPitchingSupermarkets Author:Ross W. Greene
“When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.” PeopleKidsChallengesPoorFitSkillsBehaviorExpectationsCapacityOutcomesExhibitsCompatibilityIncompatibility Author:Ross W. Greene
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.” PeopleIfsWayTryingTwoDifferentTogetherArtistPiecesSeeingStreetsNew YorkStrangeFitMusicianSettingLike MeSettingsUncomfortableSongwritersPuzzlesTransientJust LiveTwo Of UsJigsawJigsaw PuzzlesPuzzle PieceBusking Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I never write a tune before the lyrics. I get the lyrics and then I write around them. Some people write music and the lyrics come along and they say, 'Oh yeah, I've got something to fit that.' If that's the way people write songs, I feel like you might as well just go to the supermarket.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWritingWellsMightSongLike YouFitYeahTunesSupermarkets Author:James Dean Bradfield
“I get letters every week from people who live in rural Texas or rural Mississippi and who feel totally alone. They feel like they must be the strangest person in the world. They don't fit in to the religious milieu of their communities. It doesn't make any sense to them. They read some of my columns and they know that there's somebody in the world at least as crazy as they are, and so they write and say is there anybody else?” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsWritingPersonsCommunityReligiousWeekCrazyFitLettersTexasColumnsMississippiMilieu Author:John Shelby Spong
“I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWatchesFitStreaming Author:Tom Riley
“I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsTryingBodyAmericaLostPerfectInspireFitStriveOwnershipLost Hope Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“I'd like to get to a point where I am not considered natural by myself. When I say that I mean that I don't want to fit within the guidelines of what other people feel it is to be natural. If people feel that natural bodybuilders usually are the ones who lack legs or have poor body parts or don't train very hard or aren't very strong or aren't very intense, if that's your perception of what a natural bodybuilder is, then that's not what I want to be.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsMeanHardBodyStrongNaturalPoorFitPerceptionTrainLegsIntenseVery StrongGuidelinesBodybuilder Author:Kai Greene
“I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect. And since when I have been attacked I have usually been defended by the black community, I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked, if I was defended they simply said I had been defended. But I don't think they have taken any effort at maligning me or maligning gays or making any effort to give to people anything that wasn't news.” PeopleIfsThinkingGivingHas BeensSaidBlackCommunityEffortTakenFitGayNewsAspectNewspapersBlack CommunitySimply Said Author:Bayard Rustin
“I had some very fit people. I worked with a lot of athletes helping them, especially combat athletes, MMA fighters,[Dennis] Bermudez, [Chris] Weidman, and guys on the lower levels - boxers and MMA fighters.” PeopleHelpingGuyLevelsFitAthleteFighterMmaCombatBoxers Author:Chris Algieri
“What I like about acting is that you have to be super, super present in the moment. That's not something that comes to me naturally. But if you take the long view on anything, nothing can really affect you or knock you down. It's like, we're here for a blink, we're just the human experiment, one of many experiments going on in the universe, and it's interesting, it's beautiful by fits and starts, but I can't take it that personally. I'm just one of billions of people attempting.” PeopleIfsHumansLongI CanMomentsBeautifulUniverseInterestingViewsActingFitBillionsExperimentsJust OneAttemptingBlink Author:Brit Marling
“I like to stay fit, because [that's when] I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, "Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?" And I always say, "No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night."” PeopleWayFeelsKindSaidLastsNightFitHealthyLast NightFriesPhoto ShootsFrench FriesAirbrushing Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar