Top 100 Hal Quotes
#1. Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you.
Hal Elrod
#2. Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less
Hal Elrod
#3. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.
Hal Elrod
#4. Keep your dream in front of you. Never let it go regardless of how farfetched it might seem.
Hal Higdon
#5. Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots."
"Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him.
Janet Evanovich
#6. A borderline suffers a kind of emotional hemophilia; [s]he lacks the clotting mechanism needed to moderate [her] spurts of feeling. Stimulate a passion, and the borderline emotionally bleeds to death.
Jerold Kreisman, Hal Straus
#7. Suddenly Hal burst through the nearby trees and came to an abrupt halt when he saw her. "Cassie, are you hurt?"
He asked it so casually, as if he came upon women being held at sword point by nude men all the time.
Donna Grant
#9. If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
Hal Varian
#10. Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.
David Foster Wallace
#11. alter kocker like me. Street-word is Hal hired Coral
Scott Turow
#12. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"
"A little of both," said Azrael.
Mirriam Neal
#13. You must establish and maintain the beliefs that you are ... capable, committed and destined to achieve your goals.
Hal Elrod
#14. Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad.
Hal Whitehead
#15. To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
Hal Borland
#17. Hal's internal fault predictor could have made a mistake." "It's more
Arthur C. Clarke
#18. I never meant to push or shove you. Do you know how much I love you?
Hal Ketchum
#19. The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go?
Hal Elrod
#20. Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him ... a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.
Hal Lindsey
#21. I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.
Hal Sutton
#22. Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.
Hal Rothman
#23. Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you've only founded a superstition. If you test it, you've started a science.
Hal Clement
#24. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.
Hal Elrod
#25. You were worried about me?" "No," Hal said. "I was worried Ranger would kill me if I lost you.
Janet Evanovich
#26. In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
Hal Rothman
#27. - Come Inanna, enter, Neti said to her, and as Inanna entered the first gate, the sugurra, crown of the steppe, was taken from her head.
- What is this? asked Inanna
- Quiet, Inanna, she was told. The customs of the city of the dead are perfect. They may not be questioned.
Hal Duncan
#28. I should have loved,' Hal said after a very long silence. Neville's eyes filled with tears. ' Aye. You Should have loved.
Sara Douglass
#29. How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
Hal Elrod
#30. Time has its own dimensions, and neither the sun nor the clock can encompass them all.
Hal Borland
#31. Hate war, but love the American Warrior.
Hal Moore
#32. I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof - in my own life, because I want to make the case that gay isn't contagious. It's not something that you can catch or learn or choose.
Hal Sparks
#33. Life isn't about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you're not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.
Hal Elrod
#34. I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.
Hal Duncan
#35. What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?
Hal Newhouser
#36. Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
Hal Higdon
#37. Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
Hal Riney
#38. They both knew, of course, that Hal was hearing every word,
Arthur C. Clarke
#39. I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
Hal Sparks
#40. When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!
Hal Elrod
#41. Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
Hal Newhouser
#42. You're insane!"
"Call me HAL and make me sing 'Daisy, Daisy'.
John Scalzi
#43. Congress is good at doing two things: one is nothing, and the other is overreacting.
Hal Abelson
#44. Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
Hal Duncan
#45. To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
Hal Holbrook
#46. People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Hal Sparks
#47. It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
Hal David
#48. So we took out those 3 root canals when she had 3-6 months to live. And that was 6 years ago, and she is still alive today, and MRI can't find the tumour anymore. It went away.
Hal Huggins
#50. Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
Hal Elrod
#51. 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
Hal Sparks
#52. Mediocrity has nothing to do with how you compare to other people; it's simply a result of not making the commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve yourself.
Hal Elrod
#53. There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
Hal Abelson
#55. Most people start the day by checking email, texts, and social media. And most people struggle to be successful. It's not a coincidence.
Hal Elrod
#56. It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
Hal Elrod
#57. Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.
Hal Boyle
#58. Give more than you get. Everyday. Everywhere. With everyone. Always.
Hal Elrod
#60. April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Hal Borland
#61. On the one hand X is true, but on the other hand, Y is true," Harry S. Truman is reported to have muttered in frustration, "Get me a one-armed economist!
Hal Herzog
#62. No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send us into fire or light. We're fucking prisoners of conscience, prisoners of fear and shame. We're fucking prisoners of sorrow, and it's time for our release.
Hal Duncan
#63. Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Hal Draper
#64. Here's a rule of thumb: If he hasn't faced the trial yet, or he's in the midst of it - encourage him. If he's been to the wars and is limping home wounded - comfort him. Once the wounds are bound up, encourage him to rise and face the fight again.
Hal Young
#65. Anything you want for life is available to you, the universe is just waiting for you to take the necessary action(s) before it gives you what you want.
Hal Elrod
#66. I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.
Hal Sutton
#67. Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
Tom Peters
#68. The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
Hal Clement
#69. Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?
Hal Borland
#70. We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook
#71. I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
Hal Sutton
#72. The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.
Hal Elrod
#73. Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through.
Hal Elrod
#74. Always seek people who will add value to your life and bring out the best in you. And of course, be that person for others.
Hal Elrod
#75. Most 'reality' shows aren't reality at all. They're game shows with no prize. Like 'Rock of Love.' His aren't genuine feelings. Then again, Bob Barker didn't really care whether or not you won the toaster. Sorry to shatter everyone's dreams.
Hal Sparks
#76. Fiction that fails to engage an audience with the emotional intricacies of viable characters will, for many in that audience, simply alienate them with its profound irrelevance at the human level.
Hal Duncan
#77. Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.
Hal Elrod
#78. He who travels west travels not only with the sun but with history.
Hal Borland
#79. No excuses. No regrets. Just an incredible, meaningful, and exciting life!
Hal Elrod
#80. So the question is ... You wanna be a Scruffian or not?
Hal Duncan
#82. I'd rather die smiling. And running makes me smile.
Hal Higdon
#83. The conflict between pacifism and socialism ultimately reflects a greater quandary of how one engages with such a system.
Hal Duncan
#84. So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.
Anthony Edwards
#85. Putting miles in your training log is like putting money in the bank. You begin to draw interest on it immediately.
Hal Higdon
#86. If you could have anything you wanted, do anything you wanted, and be anything you wanted - what would you have? What would you do? What would you be?
Hal Elrod
#88. You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.
Hal Elrod
#89. Cause what do groanhuffs know? All's they've done is heard our tales and passed em along in a game of Chinese Whispers, getting em all mixed up, like.
Hal Duncan
#90. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
Hal Roach
#91. If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.
Hal Elrod
#92. Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
Hal Sutton
#93. Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.
Hal Duncan
#94. Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.
Hal Holbrook
#95. Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.
Hal Hellman
#96. [The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
Hal Borland
#97. If I have anything, it's tenacity.
Hal Sparks
#98. For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
Hal Borland
#99. I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.
Hal Higdon
#100. It seems the EPA has worked hard to devise new regulations that are designed to eliminate coal mining, coal burning, usage of coal.
Hal Rogers
