Doing The Bare Minimum Quotes

#1. You don't obtain excellence by doing the bare minimum.

Bohdi Sanders

#2. Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised ... techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#3. I give great thanks to God that he has created a Dalai Lama. Do you really think, as some have argued, that God will be saying: 'You know, that guy, the Dalai Lama, is not bad. What a pity he's not a Christian'? I don't think that is the case - because, you see, God is not a Christian.

Desmond Tutu

#4. If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

J. J. Watt

#5. To get girls he had figured out that all you had to do was talk little, the bare minimum, and listen much, without ever passing judgment. [Mister Gregory]

Sveva Casati Modignani

#6. When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.

Meljean Brook

#7. Its better to be second while everyone is saying You should have been first than be first when everyone says You should be second.

Karina Smirnoff

#8. Yeah. It is. And if you're going to get out of bed and come here and talk to me, the bare minimum you can do is assume I'm not everybody. When I ask you, I actually want to know how you are.

Robin York

#9. But shouldn't there be a least? Shouldn't there be a bare minimum that life should give you? Is it too much to ask for a job you don't hate, or for someone to truly have and hold? Is it too much to ask for one child? Even one some would call flawed? Couldn't I at least have that?

Kiera Cass

#10. At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Sophia Amoruso

#11. We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct ... Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

J.L. Austin

#12. I am getting by doing just the bare minimum and it takes up so many hours of my waking day.

Nina Montgomery

#13. I'm competing, Kennedy," he breathes against my neck. "And I'm going to win."
Zart, Lindy (2014-11-20). Roomies (p. 154). Kindle Edition.

Lindy Zart

#14. I've always wanted to be a fighter pilot. But I don't want to kill people. I'd hate to.

Max Irons

#15. Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.

Rosa DeLauro

#16. I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

Kanye West

#17. She couldn't just take her pleasure and go on with her life. She had a bare minimum expression of love, and it was the love her father had for her. She wouldn't take anything less. And why should she? She deserved the best a man had to offer.

C.D. Reiss

#18. There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Henri Matisse

#19. Too late did the socialist movement of the early twentieth century divine the coming of the Oligarchy. Even as it was divined, the Oligarchy was there - a fact established in blood,

Jack London

#20. Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

Bill Nelson

#21. What we want to do is raise the bare minimum amount that will give us a large enough microphone to effectively convey our message. Unfortunately, $20 million is critical mass in terms of running an effective campaign in New York.

David Brenner

#22. If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you've strangled someone in a bar fight.

John Oliver

#23. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

George Will

#24. The success of family welfare depends on giving women complete freedom with their lives. The need of the hour is that people should plan their families as per their convenience and get the bare minimum health facilities

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#25. They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

Shia Labeouf

#26. At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

William Poundstone

#27. Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

#28. The bare minimum will get you a bare minimum life. Going above and beyond will launch you above and beyond.

Bryant McGill

#29. Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

Steve Krug

#30. If you want money, buy lottery tickets. If you love music, practice and keep your overhead to the bare minimum. Keep your promises, who you are is more important than what licks you know to any band leader.

Steve Morse

#31. When you travel a lot, you learn to pack the same for every trip. Six white shirts, two black trousers. The bare minimum you need to survive.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. I was always on set, I was always working, so my study was down to the bare minimum required. So I am one of the few who didn't study 'Lord of the Flies.'

Eliza Taylor

#33. That gun of yours tickles me where I don't like to be tickled," she said.

Jonathan Latimer

#34. When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.

Mark Boyle

#35. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

George Orwell

#36. I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.

Mick Jagger

#37. Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

Watchman Nee

#38. Whenever I've had to tamper with history for plot purposes, I make sure to mention that in my author's note, and I try to keep such tampering to a bare minimum. I also attempt to keep my characters true to their historical counterparts. This is not always possible, of course.

Sharon Kay Penman

#39. Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.

Ivo Andric

#40. I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

Janelle Monae

#41. I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.

Lalaine