Top 100 Get Out Of The Way Quotes
#1. As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for
trouble.
We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.
Lisa Kleypas
#2. I don't want you folks to do a lot of talking. Just shut up and get out of the way.
Barack Obama
#3. When you are writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you're inviting into the room.
Tom Waits
#4. For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
Rand Paul
#5. The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.
Oliver DeMille
#6. I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#7. Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this situation that time travel creates and the people dealing with that situation. So narratively, the big challenge was to have time travel get out of the way.
Rian Johnson
#8. The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
Michael Jackson
#9. I try to help my athletes visualize their full potential, and then get out of the way as they achieve it.
Pat Roberts
#10. If we really want our students to become wild readers, independent of our support and oversight, sometimes the best thing we can do is get out of the way.
Donalyn Miller
#11. Humility is how we get out of the way of what God wants to do. And if we stay out of God's way, then there is nothing God cannot do in us and through us.
Mark Batterson
#13. "Be the change you want to see in the world" ... and, if you can't be that change, then either get out of the way of the person who wants to be that change or support the individual with your financial resources.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. As a writer, I always try as hard as possible to get out of the way of the story, so maybe that's the most important thing my readers should know - I'm all about the story, not about the ego.
Simon Toyne
#15. Utilities get out of the way. Can you imagine if you flipped a light switch and had to watch an ad before you got electricity? Can you imagine if you turned on a faucet and had to watch an ad before the water came out?
Jan Koum
#16. Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way
Ronald Reagan
#17. When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women? - weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?
Vivian Gornick
#18. Archdruid used to say. "Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you." Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me. I had
Kevin Hearne
#19. Rattlesnakes are only too plentiful everywhere; along the river bottoms, in the broken, hilly ground, and on the prairies and the great desert wastes alike ... If it can it will get out of the way, and only coils up in its attitude of defence when it believes that it is actually menaced.
Theodore Roosevelt
#20. I had to let go first. Trying to control the timing and outcome was a terrible waste of energy. My intentions were already out there and I had taken what action I could. My only job now was to get out of the way.
Bronnie Ware
#21. Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.
Peter Straub
#22. I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.
Sherri Shepherd
#23. Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.
Penney Peirce
#24. What do you do when you have a demon staring down an angel while the ashes of dead minions blew between them? You get out of the way, of course.
Jeaniene Frost
#25. Seriously. There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#26. Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.
Steven Symes
#27. The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.
George Osborne
#28. She is determined to learn to anticipate her worst bouts of psychosis, and head them off before they overwhelm her. "I'm trying to recognize when it's coming on," she says, "so I can get out of the way or at least drop to the ground like you would when caught in the crossfire of a shootout." (233)
Michael Greenberg
#29. Lead, follow, or at the very least GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Me
#30. It 's really hard to impose democracy. It has to emerge naturally. You have to get out of the way and let it happen.
Wesley Clark
#31. Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.
Ted Turner
#32. If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
Randy Lerner
#33. It's time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs us. She needs us to think like healers and act like warriors. And if you think that's a contradiction, then get out of the way.
Lierre Keith
#34. Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.
Esther Hicks
#35. Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.
Kyle Cease
#36. Know when and how to get out of the way.
Bob Sutton
#37. I would jump into the middle of the street and say, "excuse me, there's a Mercedes that's got to get through here." And I would push people out of the way, "get out of the way! Let him through!" Smacking their cars and stuff. Just like, "whack" and you just jump into it.
Bill Murray
#38. The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'
William Shatner
#39. Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.
Thomas Jefferson
#40. I was supposed to take the ball out. I told coach there's no way I'm taking the ball out, unless I can shoot it over the backboard and it goes in. I told him, 'Have somebody else take the ball out, give me the ball, and everybody get out of the way.'
LeBron James
#41. In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.
G. Willow Wilson
#42. Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself
Anderson Cooper
#43. My philosophy for producing a record is for everyone involved, including myself, to get out of the way of the song, and at the same time, listen to it as closely as you can, and listen to where the song wants to go.
M. Ward
#44. We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.
Diane Hendricks
#45. I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.
Joe Abercrombie
#46. You okay?" he asked me. I nodded, unable to say anything that would really cover how I felt. "Then get out of the way."
"Huh?"
"Your legs. Please
Rachel Caine
#47. I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.
Jesse Ventura
#48. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
Madeleine L'Engle
#49. A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.
William Least Heat-Moon
#50. What ... can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.
Murray Rothbard
#51. A true friend will never stand in your allotted beam of light. They will get out of the way so you can grow, but they'll stay nearby in case you need what they can offer.
Toni Sorenson
#52. The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.
Madeleine L'Engle
#53. Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!
Pat Croce
#55. Coldness in everything. It comes from a long way off; it gets into everything. One must get out of the way before it reaches the core. If it does that, one won't feel even the coldness any more. Do you see what I mean?
Christa Wolf
#56. The only way to find out where I was was to get out of the way and let myself happen.
Mark Epstein
#57. We must have bearers, and outriders, and perhaps an elephant - they are so imposing, nothing says 'Get out of the way' quite like an elephant in the front . . .
Neil Gaiman
#58. Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged servant," said George, chortling.
J.K. Rowling
#59. I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch this amazing thing happen.
Frederick Lenz
#60. If our prayer is "Dear God, please use me to be of service," then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God's love.
Marianne Williamson
#61. The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
Bob Schaffer
#62. Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
Seth Godin
#63. Our top design objective was for Kindle Paperwhite to disappear in your hands - to get out of the way - so you can enjoy your reading. We hope
Anonymous
#64. Americans are hard working, innovative, proud people who want bad government policies and high taxes to get out of the way so they can take care of their families and pursue their dreams.
Tim Walberg
#65. Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Kingsley Amis
#66. I have one rule about trouble. When it comes, I get out of the way.
Tiffany L. Warren
#67. If you can't protect yourself, die and get out of the way of those who can.
George R R Martin
#68. Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.
Ted Turner
#69. People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
Ray Bradbury
#70. The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.
David Horsey
#71. There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
Donald Miller
#73. No matter what it is, if you really want it, and if you get out of the way of it, it will happen. It must be. It is Law. It can be no other way. It's the way this Universe is established. If you want it and you relax, it will happen.
Esther Hicks
#74. Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba
#75. There are only three things you can do when something falls from the sky,' my archdruid used to say. 'Get out of the way, get underneath some shelter, or give it some reason to change its mind about falling on you.' Then he threw a pissed-off rooster at me.
Kevin Hearne
#76. Christopher Tietjens is a sad sorry bastard who just refuses to get out of the way on the oncoming train of change.
Ada Maria Soto
#77. I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the usual role of the author on a movie is to get out of the way and not say anything.
Cassandra Clare
#79. I only work in relation to what the work is about. Yes, of course, if the world's coming to an end I would basically try to get out of the way when the sky falls.
Lawrence Weiner
#80. With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.
Denis Johnson
#81. I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way
Kyle Kinane
#82. It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!
John Mellencamp
#83. I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs on the front of the building or the prices on the showroom floor. He knew he could do better, if government would just get out of the way - and stay out of the way. He was right.
Ann Wagner
#84. I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.
Anna Deavere Smith
#85. Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way
Jim Butcher
#86. Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I don't get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian)
Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
Brad Henry
#88. With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."
Nas
#89. No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.
Eve Hewson
#90. Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.
Alvin Lee
#91. AI don't make a big thing out of my race. If you try to preach, people give you a little sympathy and then they want to get out of the way. So you don't preach; you tell the story.
Jim Brown
#92. I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives believe that it is our moral duty to serve our fellow man regardless of race, sex, affiliation or creed, and when we serve, we believe that it is the state's duty to get out of the way.
Allen West
#93. All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
Adam Carolla
#94. The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way.
Ron Eglash
#95. We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
Richard Lamm
#96. As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.
Stephen Ambrose
#97. Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.
Michelle Malkin
#98. I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.
John Fairclough
#99. I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, 'Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together,' and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.
Pierce Brosnan
#100. The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
Ken Rockwell
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