Bring To The Table Quotes

#1. All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

Mystikal

#2. If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Karen Salmansohn

#3. I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Donnie Wahlberg

#4. You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.

Yolanda Adams

#5. Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Arabella Weir

#6. People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.

Tyson Chandler

#7. I bring to the table core Democratic values and can articulate them very strongly. I'm not someone who tries to claim the middle.

Cynthia Dill

#8. What Donald Trump is going to bring to the table. He's going to bring straight, honest conversation and bring up topics that, while they may be sensitive, they have to be said.

Donald Trump Jr.

#9. Creating things I think, especially as an actor - wanting to bring to the table things that have never been done before, but also making sure they're of high quality and not having a fear.

Dwayne Johnson

#10. I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Carrie Underwood

#11. My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

Megan Griffiths

#12. Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death ... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

Giada De Laurentiis

#13. What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

Ted Allen

#14. I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Jason Biggs

#15. As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.

Kelly Rowland

#16. I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge.

Russell Wilson

#17. Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Randy Pausch

#18. It feels good to have something to bring to the table," Ren said. "I will agree with that. But don't
mistake having money or stuff as being the same as being worthy.

Cameron Dane

#19. There's a misconception that maybe I'm overly confident or a little vapid or that I am a stereotypical, bratty, spoiled girl who doesn't have much to bring to the table other than how people perceive her physically.

Megan Fox

#20. I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.

Michael Shannon

#21. Teachers of design should help a student to find their own voice. In other words, not be a templated version of the teacher, but rather to help them [the students] unfold what they already know and can bring to the table.

April Greiman

#22. Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Gonzalez

#23. The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.

Mitch Lasky

#24. Over time, I've come to recognize what others bring to the table, and I've developed a much more team-based approach. There's the saying that there is no end to what one can achieve if one doesn't have to take the credit for what was achieved.

Melanne Verveer

#25. For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

John Frusciante

#26. You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Herbie Hancock

#27. As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

#28. I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.

Manti Te'o

#29. At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

Christie Hefner

#30. What we bring to the table is not only our 56 field offices in the United States and our number of resident agencies, but also we have 45 legal attaches overseas.

Robert Mueller

#31. When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat.

Stephan Labossiere

#32. I always find that what's unique to my clinics is the credentials I bring to the table

Luke Jensen

#33. I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.

Bill Gurley

#34. I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table.

Drake

#35. Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.

Nikki Sixx

#36. Hopefully, every character that I take on, as I grow older, becomes more interesting. Obviously, as I grow older, I have more to bring to the table and more experiences that I've lived myself, so I'm hoping that I can color my characters, more and more.

Diane Kruger

#37. I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

Anjelica Huston

#38. All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

Crystal Renn

#39. Hindsight is pointless, Arnuff," said the other man in the room, who was equally as old as the first. "Bring me one of those," he said, referring to the drink Arnuff held. Arnuff poured another bourbon and brought it to the coffee table.

J.T. Bishop

#40. I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

Jesse McCartney

#41. I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

Carl Paladino

#42. We all need each other in publishing to make publishing work for authors in a variety of formats now and in the future. Anyone who thinks publishers don't bring anything to the table has a very narrow view and lack of knowledge about the industry as a whole.

Robert Gottlieb

#43. Abraham had eight sons
not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a good father who made sure all his sons were literate, of good character and shared a common ideology with their father, Abraham. Abraham did good. Where did we go wrong?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#44. There's much talk about how there can't be democracy in a region that has problems of illiteracy and poverty. But I bring a different idea to the table when I say, 'Guys, I come from India. I'm more optimistic coming from where I'm coming.'

Bobby Ghosh

#45. Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.

Patricia Briggs

#46. Never bring a weapon too big to double as a dining utensil to the table when dining with friends.

Seanan McGuire

#47. All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

Vikas Swarup

#48. It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.

Maxine Waters

#49. I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

Jennifer Lopez

#50. I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

Bob Seger

#51. We've always wanted to do it, something you could dance to, and deep down we always thought we could bring something to the table if we could do it, but the live shows always made us pull back and be a rock band.

Frank Iero

#52. I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#53. She reached into a pocket of her tunic and brought out a small decorative box. She placed it on the table and slid it toward him. He squelched the urge to push it back. "I came to bring you this. It's yours."

Grace Draven

#54. In order to be a good actor, I'm a firm believer that you need to bring something to the table.

R. Lee Ermey

#55. In 'The General Strike,' we celebrate those who bring a new vision for the world to the table. People who stand for workers rights, human rights, a just representative political system, and a new mode of doing business where sustainability is the norm not the exception.

Justin Sane

#56. Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Kitty Kelley

#57. I vow that you shall always have a place by my hearth and meat and mead at my table, and pledge to ask no service of you that might bring you into dishonor. I swear it by the old gods and the new. Arise.

George R R Martin

#58. They came up with a table of pictures of all the shapes of UFOs that have ever been recorded -about fifty ... The study of UFOs may reveal some new forms of energy to us,or at least bring us closer to a solution.

Vasily Alekseyev

#59. When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.

Pharoahe Monch

#60. I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

Amy Lee

#61. Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

Chris Pronger

#62. In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table.

Narayan

#63. I think that a strong Israel is the only Israel that will bring the Arabs to the peace table.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#64. I think what helps me is that delegations of all sizes - the small, the medium, the large, the largest - they all have seen me in action. They all have seen me unlocking blockages, unlocking impasses for several years now, and they all know that ... I can bring a constructive mood to the table.

Roberto Azevedo

#65. I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

Huey Lewis

#66. Reuse Reduce RECYCLE!
Save the world , no need to be superman.
I bring what i can to the table.

Margaret Irvine

#67. Same-sex marriage confuses the balance that God created when he created male and female. He created a balance, where both sides would bring something to the table that would reflect the uniqueness of the creation. There is no reflection of the uniqueness of creation in same-sex marriage.

Tony Evans

#68. Humor relies on the traditions of a society. It takes what we know and it twists it ... Because women are on the ground floor, and we know the traditions so well, we can bring a different voice to the table.

Liza Donnelly

#69. Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

Karen Armstrong

#70. I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

Clay Aiken

#71. I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature.

Christopher Meloni

#72. We bring our preparation to the table, and opportunity may present itself, and if you are well prepared, you can seize opportunity and then maybe something good happens, and you call that luck.

Michael Mann

#73. News channels have always had interview shows, but we need different kinds of interviews with different kinds of interviewers - interviewers who bring different life experiences to the table.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#74. Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

James T. Walsh

#75. I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.

Drew Sidora

#76. You should be living your life surrounded by people who are like-minded, service-oriented, and grateful, people who are trying to accomplish things, and who bring something to the table.

Steve Harvey

#77. The very good thing about MFA programs is their democratizing. They bring a lot of different people to the table.

Edward Hirsch

#78. Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.

Steven Spielberg

#79. I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

Debbie Allen

#80. What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.

Vinton Cerf

#81. I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it up a bit; you have to bring other talents to the table. I want this to be another feather in my cap instead of replacing what I already have.

Kirsten Nelson

#82. Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for.

Olivia Wilde

#83. I think the biggest thing is just making sure that you do the work that you connect with, personally, and that you do work where you can really bring something to the table. It's just about being truthful to yourself.

Susanna White

#84. I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

Eddie Trunk

#85. I don't want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I'd rather bring something new to the table that's true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That's the whole point, isn't it?

Veronika Carnaby

#86. Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

Anthony Liccione

#87. The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Alexander Wang

#88. When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.

Natalie Goldberg

#89. Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were waiting for us, sitting around the dining-room table waiting for Constance to bring them their dinner.

Shirley Jackson

#90. If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

Frank Lampard

#91. I hope I just continue to be passionate about the roles and to always endeavor to bring clarity and honesty to the table and different ideas.

Angela Bassett

#92. Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

Andy Summers

#93. We are all need to be creative in life because we are running an endless race and we need to bring something new, fresh and something enticing on the table.

Euginia Herlihy

#94. Republican women bring an important voice to the table.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#95. Then it was a rumble, causing the house to groan and small clouds of dust to drop from the ceiling. The table scuttled over the floor. A chair toppled over and then another. Somewhere in the living room, a window shattered. Kat was going to bring the house down.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#96. An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.

Walter Jon Williams

#97. How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!

Huey Long

#98. If you saw me working with construction crews or graphic designers, you'd see how much I'm really hoping for them to bring something to the table and let God in the room and let things happen naturally.

Jack White

#99. Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.

Barack Obama

#100. If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

E.A. Bucchianeri