“Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.” IfsTryingYearsProblemWould BeFallGamesWinningEasyGoalLossProudLowsStandardsOkayBarsBeing The BestBe ProudMediocre Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.” IfsYearsBookEasyHoursOkayBeachGood BookClams Author:Mary Oliver
“In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.” EasyMistakeOkayOrganizationRememberedZeroDefectsZero Defects Author:John Daly
“My toughest fight was myself. For me to disclose and let things out was not easy because we don't want to seem weak or like we are different, but I learned that it's okay.” WantDifferentSeemsFightingEasyWeakOkay Author:Sugar Ray Leonard
“What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKindDoeI CanCharacterGuyGirlEvilEasyInterestingCrazyHeroCapableOkayLabelsRelateDividedVersusIntrigueBad GuysGood Guy Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“If you look at the actual movies that I've done, the whole struggle is to get to that point, so it's not something that you just have so easy . . . But it's okay. It doesn't bother me. I've done okay so far.” IfsLooksDoneWholeEasyStruggleOkayBother Author:Kristen Stewart
“It's okay to be successful and it's also okay to be happy with your success even though it might not be easy.” MightEasySuccessfulOkayBeing Successful Author:Brooke Shields
“Producers don't like the director who ignores their opinion - but I always try not to be the nicest person when making a movie. It's easy to do that. Just say 'Yes sir', "Alright', 'Okay' - but they're not seeing the movie because if they can, they should be directing the movie.” IfsShouldTryingPersonsEasyOpinionSeeingDirectorsOkayProducersAlright Author:Ryuhei Kitamura
“Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.” FeelsLooksStillsSometimesTogetherEasyKnowingHairOkayFingersSillyHungryBreadLook UpBitesTwistsSaladPeachesTacky Author:Buddy Wakefield
“I think it's okay that there's digital music out there, because that does mean more people have access. I mean, you're a student, and you're studying music, and you want to find a CD of a whole work, but there's one piece that intrigues you. It's easy to get that piece for a dollar for the most part. And it's so easy for people to carry around music digitally.” PeopleThinkingWantMeanDoeWholeEasyStudyPiecesStudentsOkayDollarsAccessDigitalIntrigueCdsEasy To GetOne PieceStudying MusicDigital Music Author:Gail Zappa
“Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.” UsedEasyChallengesOkay Author:Naomi Campbell
“"You are the actor, and I understand we already had our sit down, you explained your concept, your view," so I said, "Okay, I'm in your hands." That means that if you've got to nudge me a little bit to the right I move to the right, just from the pressure, weight, but you won't have to touch me at all. You can come and go "Okay, you want me over here a little bit more," so no pressure on us at all that's easy to do.” IfsWantMeanLittlesSaidHandsMovingActorsEasyBitsViewsLittle BitConceptsOkayWeightPressureWant MeComes And GoesYou Want MeTouch MeNudgeNo Pressure Author:Morgan Freeman
“For me, it's about risk taking, taking things in new directions. Because every single time, no matter how much you learn, you can never say, "Okay, I did the hardest thing I ever did. I'm prepared now. Now it's going to be easy." Of course it's not easy.” MatterCoursesEasyRiskOkayPreparedHardestHardest ThingRisk-takingNew Directions Author:David Copperfield
“[Producers] took me to Chicago at 18 to star in a show that ran for almost a year. And that's when my parents said, "Okay, I guess you can quit Fordham." Of course, when that show closed, as you can imagine, I came to New York and starved for years, but it's never an easy road.” YearsSaidShowsCoursesStarsEasyParentImagineNew YorkOkayQuittingProducersRanChicagoEasy Road Author:David Copperfield
“Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"” IfsShouldKindMayCertainEasyGrowthLinesPlansEconomicApproachOkayHarderCrisisLuckEntrepreneurConservativeExtrasRevenueGood LuckUnstableBad LuckEconomic CrisisExtra Time Author:Reid Hoffman
“Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.” WantYearsGuyOrderFightingWishEasyStuffMillionsProductsOkayBallsFinishedRapperMore MoneyHittingThis GuyJeterSandlot Author:Mr. T
“Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that.” ThinkingWorldFeelingsRunningSufferingFightingEasyCrazyOkayTraumaIndifference Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“My problem is, whether it's for emotion or for the talents that a character has to have in a role, I find it very difficult to not take on a challenge. I need to say, "Okay, enough, take the easy road." But the easy road for me is not - it might just come out coincidentally. I wouldn't ever choose a movie because it's easy. I might choose a movie because I feel like being funny, or I feel like being able to do something that is perhaps dramatic, but to a lesser degree. Because I like switching it up, basically, not because I would take the easier road.” EnoughCharacterProblemEasyDifficultChallengesEmotionTalentOkayDramatic Author:Gerard Butler
“When it became easy enough to do dairy online, then I just thought, "Oh, I'll start doing this. I'll put the parts online that aren't going to get me in trouble. I'll save the rest for myself." It became also this kind of self-therapy. I could write about stuff that was bothering me, or personal stuff. And the very personal stuff I could edit out. But it was kind of the catharsis of getting it out and writing about it, that made me think, "Okay, I see why people do this, why they keep these diaries." So I thought, "Well, let's see what happens when I post some of it."” PeopleThinkingWritingKindEnoughEasyTroubleOkayBotherOnline Author:David Byrne
“Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.” GivingTryingRunningDiesEasyLosesPayOkayBoundsCarrieFacetsLinebackers Book:Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton Source: Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton
“"I guess I'm okay with that. But it's not going to be easy for you. They don't have a lot of fishing or mudding around here." "I figured." "And not a lot of beach volleyball, either. Especially in January." "I guess I'll have to make some sacrifices." "Maybe if you're lucky, we can find you some other ways to occupy your time."” IfsWayEasySacrificeLuckyOkayBeachFishingVolleyballJanuaryBeach Volleyball Author:Nicholas Sparks
“sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do.” PeopleSometimesHardEasyOkayCheat Book:Will Grayson, Will Grayson Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault.” BigsSeemsRunningEasyOkayBlameFaultsInjuryEpidemicsNike Book:Born to Run Source: Born to Run