Giving Quotes

The universe always gives you more of what you are focusing on.

When you're a regular on a TV show, they give you more of a backstory, so with these recurring gigs, you have to make up your own backstory.

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

You have to go out onto the pitch feeling good about yourself. That can give you that extra 30 per cent.

I actually like taking a mic and plugging it into an amp and giving it to a kid to see what they do, 'cause they flip out. They're way more in touch with their voices than we give them credit for.

Market leaders inevitably slip into decline when they tell the people what they want instead of giving the people what they want.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

What I wouldn't give to find a soul mate, someone else to catch this drift.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Give up the tyranny of female charm.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.

One must take what nature gives as one finds it.

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Intel is down but not out. We have a very nervous market and it's the dog days of summer, ... We are short-term overbought so we're giving some of it back with the excuse being Intel.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You want funny moments to be funny, sad moments to be sad. You wanna give your all.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize.

The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.

Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.

― Why does toothpaste give me headache?

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

You give up a lot when you enter the years of parenting. It's a sacrifice.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

I think it's always important to give immediate positive reinforcement.

Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Muslims want the western countries to apologize. Why? because this gives them a sense of empowerment. It makes them feel good about themselves, it stokes their ego.

Success is a lot of things. In my personal life it is to have my own family with me, to give all my best to let my daughter have a better life than me, better choices.

Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Give me lace and whiskey, Mama's own remedy.