Top 100 Is You Quotes
#1. Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.
John Sandford
#2. But the truth is, you can't really earn trust over time with people without being somewhat vulnerable [first].
Timothy Ferriss
#3. Alex, the only one you should be giving a second chance is you.
Alyson Noel
#4. It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.
Demetri Martin
#5. A key thing in being a leader is you've got to pause yourself.
Ben Horowitz
#6. The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.
Bill Kurtis
#7. You put a lot of yourself into a character, so even though he's not you, in a sense it is you.
Frankie J. Alvarez
#8. From a common-sense standpoint, you're probably on the right road. The problem is, you're opening a can of worms you might not be able to shut. That might cause more problems than it solves.
Kelvin Sampson
#9. That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.
Susan Sarandon
#10. The funny thing about voice over is you can go in in sweatpants and have your hair all messed up, and no one will see you, and you can still deliver the same great product.
Elizabeth Gillies
#11. The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
Ryan Reynolds
#12. If you have expectations, you try to put your standards on someone else's behavior. The fact is you can't control anyone but yourself, so creating standards, as opposed to expectations, keeps the ball in your court.
Daphne Oz
#13. The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann
#14. You say you love me, but you have no idea what love is; you're just mouthing words you've memorized because you think they sound good!
Colleen McCullough
#15. Mind your own business and you'll live hundred years. Problem is, you know, a hundred years is a long time. Do I really want to live that long?
J.M. Darhower
#16. The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.
Morgan Spurlock
#17. When you take a moment to think about how vast the universe is, you can either choose to feel very small or very special.
Aaron Quincy
#18. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are.
Pema Chodron
#19. Once you define exactly what your purpose is you won't even have to try to figure out how to make money. The ideas will flow freely as if someone was whispering in your ear. Everything will come together beautifully.
Bob Proctor
#20. Competition isn't a bad thing. Somebody can always do it better and that somebody is you.
Linda Rawson
#21. The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
Maggie Carey
#22. Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.
Peter Shepherd
#23. Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.
Arthur Rock
#24. The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: 'I'm a fraud! Oh god, they're on to me! I'm a fraud!
Sheryl Sandberg
#25. The gospel preached during every television show is 'You only go around once in life, so get all the gusto you can.' It is a statement about theology; it is a statement about beer. It's lousy beer and even worse theology.
John Silber
#26. The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.
Frank Zappa
#27. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
Mitch Albom
#28. How engaged are your employees right now? You may consider such a question impossible to answer, but the truth is, you need to know this if you want a more profitable, ethical organization, as everyone must share the same values to make the changes genuine
Jim Craig
#29. It is a perfect deception when you can lie to yourself and believe it. You cannot love two people the same. One will always fall by the shadows ... even if that one is you.
Michelle Horst
#30. I am nowhere close to finished but I'm the kind of busy that feels eternal, the kind where you can't say I'll be done in a few hours because the truth is you will never, ever, be done.
Nina LaCour
#31. Dazzling truth that you never will have "more time," since you already have all the time there is - you
Arnold Bennett
#32. Watch your mouth. I pissed on your plan?' he asks incredulously. 'Ava, let me tell you, nowhere in my plan was it written that you would have me restrained and at your mercy. So, it is you who pissed all over my plan.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#33. Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
Penn Jillette
#34. But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
Sam Donaldson
#35. The greatest advantage of speaking the truth is you don't have to remember what you said.
Anonymous
#36. You know, the thing is with people who never talk, the thing is you always suppose they're harbouring some enormous secret. But, just possibly, the secret is, they have absolutely nothing to say.
Richard Greenberg
#37. One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.
Bobby Schilling
#38. That's a shitty thing to do. It's almost catlike in its evilness."
"See, your problem is you underestimate dogs. There's a reason many of us are let up on the couch, while they keep y'all in a zoo.
Shelly Laurenston
#39. The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
Andy Roddick
#40. Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.
John Green
#41. Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.
Mark Bradford
#42. The only person
You shouldn't be able
To live without
Is you.
Chris Mc Geown
#43. The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.
Keith Rabois
#44. Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are.
Esther Hicks
#45. Real-time marketing is not for everyone. To take advantage of it, you need to have a clear idea of what it is you want to achieve through it.
David Amerland
#46. It's exhausting being cynical. You are trying to be an immovable, angry rock in the middle of a stream. But the stream will not move. It is you that will be worn down to dull silt.
Caitlin Moran
#47. I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally,you have to wait to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.
Jim Carrey
#48. In the past year I've gotten used to being cut down to size whenever I start acting too high and mighty. If you didn't keep me in line,I'd be damn well unmanageable. As it is, you're going to have a lot of work to do once they leave.
Lisa Kleypas
#49. You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work ... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.
Keith Rabois
#50. Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I
Don DeLillo
#51. trying to embarrass me? You don't ask for bags at a farmer's market. Is you crazy?
G.L. Tomas
#52. His lips touched mine again, breathing me in like I was his air, then he tore his mouth from mine; panting. Please Grace, whatever it is you're going after, please try to find it here in me. I will try my best to be the man that you need me to be.
Christine Zolendz
#53. When you understand just how big the Universe is, you then realize that only idiots fight over an area of space called land.
Marc Marcel
#54. As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.
Cherry Jones
#55. When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.
David Wroblewski
#56. Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!
Rachael Ray
#57. People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.
David Petraeus
#58. One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
Hal Holbrook
#59. When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
Haruki Murakami
#60. I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together
David Miliband
#61. The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can't even tell who is who.
Chetan Bhagat
#63. Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
Mary Roach
#64. When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#65. When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky
Gautama Buddha
#66. There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?'
Phil Schiller
#67. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.
Eckhart Tolle
#68. I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.
Lynn Collins
#69. The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.
Gary Cole
#70. The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
Rachel Weisz
#71. What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
Nathan Myhrvold
#72. The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.
Richard Jenkins
#73. Love is all, love is new, love is all, love is you.
John Lennon
#74. People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don't. The goal is not to get people to share your core values. It's to get people who already share your core values.
Robert Spector
#75. The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.
DeVon Franklin
#76. One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
Bill Nye
#77. COUNT ON ONLY 1 PERSON ..THE PERSON WHO YOU KNOW 100% WILL BE THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH OF LIFE ... THAT PERSON YOU MUST COUNT ON IS YOU!
Stuart J. Scesney
#78. Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.
Andrew Ashling
#79. The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.
Steven Pressfield
#80. If you're going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you'd better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
Paul Orfalea
#81. What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine.
What is poetry! And you are asking me?
Poetry ... is you.
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
#82. You know, when a person is murdered, you can miss that person and put all of your anger into hating the killer, even if you don't know who the killer is. You also have the choice of forgiveness. But when someone takes her own life, she is the killer.
Sarah Ockler
#83. Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
Ken Kesey
#84. The nice thing about doing a weekly record is you're rehearsing all week and working on getting the script better. Come Friday, when it's time to actually film it, you feel like you've done most of the work!
Rory Kinnear
#85. Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
Ira Glass
#86. I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.
Kevin O'Leary
#87. When someone falls asleep on your chest, but the one really falling is you.
Craig Stone
#88. If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still have not understood what grace is, you have not yet received grace which is this closeness.
Pope Francis
#89. Good thing about bad rubbish is you can make the stench go away just by covering it up. It never comes back as long as you keep a tight lid on it.
Neal Shusterman
#90. For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.
Chris Wedge
#91. I think the best thing about being pregnant would definitely have to be seeing just my belly grow and seeing, like, wow, there is, you know, something inside of me.
Tia Mowry
#92. The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
Bill Walton
#93. I never planned on falling for you. You were just an assignment. But it just sort of happened and now... There's not a single thing I would change about you. When you smile, my entire world stops. All I see is you. I need you.
Abi Ketner
#94. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.
Okamoto Kanoko
#95. Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret is no fun. And although you don't want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
E.L. Konigsburg
#96. I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.
Herschel Walker
#97. The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#98. In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
Angela Ahrendts
#99. If you tell a story enough times, it sounds like fiction. You don't feel that visceral throb of resonance with the person who is you, who did the things you did.
Leah Raeder
#100. I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.
Bridgit Mendler
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