My motivation is that I try to get myself to a certain point, and I want to win as much as I can in my career.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

When I shot 'Private Practice,' Amy Brenneman made a point of really befriending me before we started shooting.

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.

When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

At a certain point in one's career, you want to win, not just have a great season. You want to win a championship.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

I personally think if something's not a challenge, there's no point doing it, because you're not gonna learn much.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I absolutely love Piers Morgan and there's absolutely no point in watching 'Good Morning Britain' if he's not on it.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be perfect. So, when people point out I'm imperfect, so what? That's just who I am.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

Every good business story has a conflict and triumph at the core and a turning point where a transformation takes place.

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

I think you have to go out believing you can win the match; otherwise, there's no point walking out on the court, really.

My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars.

I wasn't drinking to get drunk. It's social drinking, so what's the point? It's empty calories, you're poisoning yourself.

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.

Even at my lowest point, when I've wanted to give up, I know that I have to believe in myself because I'm all that I have.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Life has to be a roller coaster ride. Otherwise, what's the point of living? Why should I make a song and dance about mine?

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

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