Any Given Quotes

#1. Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time
you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Jon Bon Jovi

#2. The most challenging work is producing. The physical act of getting a production up and running is extremely taxing, and you never have any guarantee that your years of work on any given project will ever bear fruit.

David Hayter

#3. I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Mercedes Lackey

#4. The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Seth Shostak

#5. We would have met again some other time or in some other place,' he said. 'We would have been given other chances. Life recognizes the unpredictability of our movements in any given life. Somehow we would have met, Jane. We were determined that it would be so before we entered this life.

Mary Balogh

#6. The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

Charles A. Beard

#7. Kids don't even know what it means that you have to watch a show on Thursday night at 9 o'clock, on any given network. You just put it on your DVR, or queue it up on your computer, and it's an on-demand and instant access world.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#8. Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Dan Harmon

#9. Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to creatively turn life's negative aspects into something positive or constructive. In other words, what matters is to make the best of any given situation.

Viktor E. Frankl

#10. [D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Roger Ebert

#11. Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.

Bradford Cox

#12. On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is
can you win or lose like a man?

Al Pacino

#13. I felt like when we came back from the All-Star break we needed everybody to feel like they were part of the team, ... I'm just trying to do whatever the team needs at any given time.

Kobe Bryant

#14. I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

#15. Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

Anna Wintour

#16. Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries
which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Marcel Proust

#17. I usually make films about what's on my mind at any given time.

Pawel Pawlikowski

#18. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

V.S. Naipaul

#19. Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.

Dani Shapiro

#20. Linebacker is a lot more detail oriented and you have to know a lot more than a defensive end necessarily would on any given play.

Justin Cole

#21. What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.

A.W. Tozer

#22. Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

Susan Jane Gilman

#23. The only thing you can trust about life and people is that at any given time, one of the two will always hurt you.

Ebony Canion

#24. To believe fully and at the same moment to have doubts is not at all a contradiction: it presupposes a greater respect for truth, an awareness that truth always goes beyond anything that can be said or done at any given moment.

Rollo May

#25. I love getting on the subway because you get on the car, and you see the entire human race represented in any given subway car.

Tim Daly

#26. The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.

Daniel Quinn

#27. I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where you are at any given time, and how that is beautiful, and has poetry inside. Even places you hate.

Jeff Buckley

#28. At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.

Aldous Huxley

#29. The more divorced from practical reality any given theory is, the greater its fascination for those who are also divorced from reality.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#30. One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.

John Maynard Keynes

#31. The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

Warren Buffett

#32. People have often accused me of inconsistency but i feel that i have always, at any given junction, done the same thing. Exactly what i pleased.

Joe Abercrombie

#33. The Purpose gives the array of these actions coherence, not just at any given moment, but over time, and thus helps ensure that the firm does achieve a genuine specialization, a genuine difference from its competitors. In this way it makes superior profits possible. Purpose

Nikos Mourkogiannis

#34. Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.

Janice Dickinson

#35. I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused.

Margaret Atwood

#36. Surfing also teaches quality . I will wager that it is not the number of waves that makes a session memorable for any given surfer, but that one beautiful wave that he or she waited for ... and rode all the way the way to shore.

Shaun Tomson

#37. Another explained, I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment - you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.

Sophia Dembling

#38. I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

Whitney Cummings

#39. Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Kevin Kelly

#40. I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

Kevin Costner

#41. Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.

Ludwig Von Mises

#42. Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet learned that heartbreak can catch up to you on any given day. p. 285

Barbara Kingsolver

#43. Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

Guy Kawasaki

#44. The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Ayn Rand

#45. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

George Orwell

#46. they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And

Viktor E. Frankl

#47. In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs ... different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects

Albert Bandura

#48. People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many stocks went up versus how many went down. These so-called advance/decline numbers paint a more realistic picture.

Peter Lynch

#49. I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

Liz Phair

#50. Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

Albert Einstein

#51. In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#52. The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

Robert D. Kaplan

#53. Understand, my own politics aren't necessarily interchangeable with what any of my characters believe. You could take each of the characters in On the Ropes, and I'd probably be in sympathy with a different one on any given day, depending on what's going on in the world.

James Vance

#54. I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

Anna Paquin

#55. You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are ... off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart.

Elizabeth Berg

#56. Al Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.

Cynthia McKinney

#57. In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

Ken Kesey

#58. I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

Martin McDonagh

#59. History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.

Daniel Walker Howe

#60. At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Jennifer Beals

#61. I don't think that everyone should have a philosophical answer to any given question. There are things that need to be done.

Aleksandar Hemon

#62. At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an increased freedom of response, comprehension, feeling. Choice, what choices are possible for any given person, is another theme that's run through my work from the start.

Jane Hirshfield

#63. The measure of performance of any given agent is the amount of money it accumulates through its actions.

John Henry Holland

#64. Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

Ben Parr

#65. Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

Carlo Rovelli

#66. Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

James Balog

#67. Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Thomas Carlyle

#68. There is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average
human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it
and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Charles Bukowski

#69. If I don't get at least 1 email in any given hour, I begin to think my friends are conspiring against me.

Tommy James

#70. No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence
that which makes its truth, its meaning
its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream
alone.

Joseph Conrad

#71. For any given problem, if there's a simple solution it will already have been applied. So, perhaps, the solution isn't as simple as you think.

Stuart Aken

#72. I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this one!" Not in terms of any given story, and certainly not in terms of the collection as a whole.

Roy Kesey

#73. At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Michael Dirda

#74. On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

Wayne Newton

#75. Throughout any given season of 'The Bachelor,' the women exclaim that the experience is like a fairy tale. They suffer the machinations of reality television, pursuing - along with several other women, often inebriated - the promise of happily ever after.

Roxane Gay

#76. must be firmly implanted in our minds that victory is for one moment at a time, and that in any given moment we are participating in eternal victory or eternal defeat.

Michael Wells

#77. On any given vote, on any given day, a smart senator who has taken a bold or controversial position can reach far more media outlets between the elevator and the Senate chamber than he or she could garner in a full press conference back home.

Jim Webb

#78. Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.

Dwight Yoakam

#79. We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

Bo Lozoff

#80. No, I don't think I have the same body type as the other models in shows. No, I don't think I am the best at any given show. Yes, I want a unique walk, but I also know I have to improve.

Gigi Hadid

#81. At any given time, you're either moving forward or you're moving backward. There is no in-between. There's no such thing as maintaining the status quo. It

Darrin Donnelly

#82. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

Arthur Bloch

#83. Don't try to be something you're not. If you're goofy, be goofy if you're serious be serious. And no matter what, give everything you have and enjoy it while you can because it can all be taken away from you at any given moment.

Derek Holland

#84. The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as
drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Erich Fromm

#85. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ...

James Gleick

#86. A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time.

Mike Krzyzewski

#87. You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants.

Constantin Stanislavski

#88. Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

Martin Feldstein

#89. Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time.

Michael Shermer

#90. At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

Grace Hopper

#91. I haven't fully moved over to the iPad. At any given time, I have about four DVDs in my pocket. I'm constantly screening 'Top Chef,' 'Housewives,' and all the other shows we have in development, racing to meet a deadline. So I pretty much bring my laptop everywhere.

Andy Cohen

#92. I rarely accept things on blind faith, especially the orthodoxy of any given practice, or any given practicum. I'm like, "Oh come on. Is this the way to do things?"

Lucas Neff

#93. The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.

L. Ron Hubbard

#94. In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

Will Self

#95. Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rights protected, because it at any given moment my rights could trample your rights

R.C. Sproul

#96. In general, if we carefully examine any given situation in a very unbiased and honest way, we will realize that to a large extent we are also responsible for the unfolding of events.

Dalai Lama XIV

#97. As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

John Forbes Nash

#98. I don't think people should be able to swear whenever they want. I just don't want the federal government making laws about swearing. We should trust people's own instincts about what is appropriate in any given situation.

Richard Dooling

#99. The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.

James S. Coleman

#100. To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

Dave Eggers