Top 100 Get It Right Quotes
#1. I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
Chris Raschka
#2. Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.
Nick Kroll
#3. You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
Margot Kidder
#4. We are the kind of people who obsess over one word ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
Amy Tan
#5. A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.
Wes "Scoop" Nisker
#6. I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it's usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
Ruby Wax
#7. Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas.
Jodi Picoult
#8. When it comes to relationships; sometimes you get it right, and sometimes it gets you right.
R.L. Byrd
#9. Finding love is like making creme brulee. It may take a few tries before you get it right.
Crystal Woods
#10. If we get it wrong, if we repeat the mistakes of our past, the consequences could be devastating. But if we get it right, the potential benefits to the future of humanity are astonishing.
Stephen L. Petranek
#11. Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.
Eric Maskin
#12. One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won't improve with age.
Warren Buffett
#13. Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
Donald Judd
#14. And remember, the goal of practice isn't doing something until you get it right. It's doing it until you can't get it wrong.
Bob Kauflin
#15. I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.
Betty Wright
#16. There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had to be tested. And in this short amount of time, it's just very time-consuming and very stressful to ensure that you get it right.
Frank Luntz
#18. The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
Ringo Starr
#19. The formula for success is every guy can make a difference for the entire team in whatever his role is. And to do it right, to get it right, is a critical factor in being successful.
Nick Saban
#20. Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong.
Steven Jackson
#21. You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.
Helen Van Wyk
#22. This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right. Yes, it's a bit chaotic. Certainly we will get some things wrong.
Chuck Wendig
#23. I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.
Patricia MacLachlan
#24. There was a lot of expectations and pressure on the first one, because the fanbase is pretty big, when we were shooting the movie. I think the whole cast was aware of the responsibility we had to tell Stephanie's (Meyer) story, to try to get it right and take our work seriously.
Peter Facinelli
#25. But, no, I don't think there will be any kind of problem as far as setting up to be competitive, but you've got to get it right if you want to be the first one across the line.
Dan Wheldon
#26. You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right
Jack Canfield
#27. If you're playing God, you need to get it right.
Larry Brooks
#28. Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil
#29. All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.
Larry Bond
#30. I love not knowing what's going to happen next. With work, you never know. You rehearse and strive and get it right sometimes, and still you never know. Some people are like that with their marriages. They work and strive and labour and toil at them. God, what a bore! What an unromantic bore!
Celia Imrie
#31. You make all your mistakes with your own children so by the time your grandchildren arrive, you know how to get it right. Plus, once you turn fifty, you kind of stop giving a shit what others think.
Liz Fenton
#32. Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
Fred Brooks
#33. Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
Damien Chazelle
#34. I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
#35. You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.
Julia Child
#36. Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.
Robert Forster
#37. When economists get it right, the world gets better.
Dani Rodrik
#38. Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.
T.F. Hodge
#39. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again and again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
Kevin Spacey
#40. I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.
Terry Pratchett
#41. No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time.
Gerry Rafferty
#42. I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.
Jonathan Nolan
#43. Focus on doing one thing, get it right, then start working on something else.
Patrick Thean
#44. Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
Philip Roth
#45. In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.
Frederick Lenz
#46. You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right
at least if you have any experience
because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.
Richard P. Feynman
#47. Creating one single story often requires experimenting and planning and falling on your literary rear more than once before you find the way that works for your particular tale. The most important issue is to keep on trying until you get it right.
Nancy Lam
#48. I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
Bryan Robson
#49. Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.
Steve Jobs
#50. I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.
Frederick Buechner
#51. Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!
Michael Scott
#52. I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it.
Matt Ridley
#53. A long term relationship is priceless! Divorce isn't. This book should help you get it right the first time. Since it just came out however, it will help you get it right the next time also.
Susan Ziggy
#54. You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!
J.K. Rowling
#55. I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
Alan Furst
#56. Somewhere in, I think, the back of the mind of some [education] policy makers is this idea that if we fine-tune it well enough, if we just get it right, it will all hum along perfectly into the future. It won't, and it never did.
Ken Robinson
#57. Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.
Dave Goldberg
#58. It's hard to balwnce a career and a family. There's no way to get it right all the time
Kirsten Beyer
#59. You don't have to get it right the first time.
Barbara Sher
#60. Olgun! Wake up!"
Her mind was filled with a sense of self-righteous and
vaguely drowsy protest.
"Sure you weren't, she needled at him. You were just
practicing snoring, so you'd be sure to get it right later on,
yes?"
Olgun's response very strongly resembled an indignant
snort.
Ari Marmell
#61. Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we'll get it right.
William Kittredge
#62. In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right.
David Nevins
#63. Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
Stuart Townsend
#64. I strive for perfection, but of course it can never be perfect. I'm never satisfied at the end of a performance. But the great thing about live theatre is that every night you get another chance to get it right.
Anthony Warlow
#65. Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.
John Dufresne
#66. Whenever you're telling a story about true-life events and about real people, there's a tremendous responsibility-slash-burden to get it right.
Tom McCarthy
#67. Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right.
Monty Roberts
#68. I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.
McCoy Tyner
#69. You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#70. It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
John Lydon
#71. The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
Michael Gerber
#72. I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.
Brendon Urie
#73. I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
Mary Meeker
#74. Get it Right today, for today wil never come again
Seyi Ayoola
#75. Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.
Walter Inglis Anderson
#76. When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.
Nicholas Jarecki
#77. I think a true writer takes whatever time he or she needs to get a poem or story or book right. If you want to be a storyteller, take the time to get it right.
DeWanna Pace
#78. I believe in hiring people to do their jobs.I want to hire an editor.They say you make a movie three times: when you write it, when you direct it, and when you edit it. So I have three shots to get it right!
Nate Parker
#79. I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
Ralph Brown
#80. Sofia fought with me throughout the book and I had to rewriter her three times to get it right.
Holly S. Roberts
#81. Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.
Mike Michaud
#82. Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.
S.A. Tawks
#83. Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#84. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
Margaret Mead
#85. She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
Jennifer E. Smith
#86. You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
Ian Rankin
#87. Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands, to price these items, to market these items, I think the retail business is incredibly complex. But if you get it right, it's a beautiful thing.
Edward Lampert
#88. I knew to put on my favorite earrings. Sometimes you start with the outside and you get it right. You tend to your spirit through the body.
Anne Lamott
#89. I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.
Mike Tirico
#90. Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it.
Brian Cramer
#91. I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.
David Spade
#92. I could not have written this book the way I wanted to without the insight of one such friend, Brent Dempsey. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for being so generous with your time and for helping me get it right. I solemnly swear to never again use the words stakeout or perp.
Julie James
#93. When you're doing a film, you're on a set and you have retakes and you have time to get it right. And on 'SNL' it's just go, go, go. If you can't read the cue cards or miss your mark, you're just left to sort of screw up. So there's a lot more pressure doing a live TV show.
Megan Fox
#94. God, I don't know what lies ahead or what will happen next. But you're going to be there, aren't you? Even when the world tricks me into thinking you're not. Things are going to be different. *I'm* going to be different. And I'm going to get it right this time.
Jenny B. Jones
#95. Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.
Debra Lawrance
#97. Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life.
Bill Bartmann
#98. Maybe in another life we'll meet again and get it right. But whatever happens, you will always remain my one perfect memory, my one perfect dream. I love you, my beautiful man.
Mia Asher
#99. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right.
Asif Kapadia
#100. I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
Halle Berry
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