Top 100 It's Not About Quotes
#1. A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.
Ivanka Trump
#2. It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Randy Pausch
#3. It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
Scott Belsky
#4. Poverty is fundamentally about a lack of cash. It's not about stupidity," stresses
Rutger Bregman
#5. They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, ... The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership ... They've got all the authority already.
George Haddow
#6. My mom used to say, before, I met your father, that it's not about meeting the right guy - there are hundreds, thousands, of right guys in the world- it's figuring out the right one for you.
Ellie Alexander
#7. I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It's not about, oh that's what you should be doing.
Jihan El-Tahri
#8. I think that if you're serving yourself before you're serving a story then that's where you end up being not funny. It's not about being funny, it's about telling a story and then the comedy comes out of the situation, I think.
Zooey Deschanel
#9. Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W ... It's everything about the W with me!
Bernard Hopkins
#10. It's not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.
Neil Patel
#11. It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.
Satya Nadella
#12. Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
Douglas Leone
#13. We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about ... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.
Trey Parker
#14. It's not about religion, it's about relationship".
~R. Alan Woods [2006]
R. Alan Woods
#15. When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
Sinead O'Connor
#16. My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.
Michelle Phan
#17. For getting lean and trying to get toned, it's not about having a low weight and maximising as many reps as possible.
Greg Rutherford
#18. Julius," she starts, "it's not about being a bad guy." Her voice is soft. "I can make any good guy bad for the evening." This
Belle Aurora
#19. God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.
Max Lucado
#20. It's not about who you date. It's about who you're looking for.
Coco Nicole Estef
#22. Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done ... it's about what been done for us.
Tricia Goyer
#23. It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.
Stormie O'martian
#24. It's not about going to church every week because you know there's a lot of people who go to church all of the time who aren't going to heaven. It's not even about that, it's not about kissing God's ass, it's about being aware.
Ryan Montgomery
#25. It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
Dr. Seuss
#26. Try listening, maybe. Hear what is being said. And remember that it's not about you. American Blacks are not telling you that you are to blame. They are just telling you what is.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#27. It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
David Cassidy
#28. It's not about blood,"
says Lucius. "It's
about who you share
your life with.
Where you feel
you really belong.
Emma Cameron
#29. It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.
Mark Batterson
#30. Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
Gloria Steinem
#31. Maybe it's not a choice between the two of them. Maybe there's a third choice. Or a fourth or a fifth. Or maybe it's not about having a guy right now. Maybe it's just about having friends.
Hillary Frank
#32. Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.
Dan Savage
#33. It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
#34. With God it's not about beholding life, but being held ourselves in the act of beholding it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#35. It's not about finding out who you are, it's about creating who you are.
Shay Carl
#36. I'm not really struggling about my career. The struggles are in my personal life. I can't really pinpoint how long it took me to get where I'm at, and I didn't care how long it was going to take, because it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
Tracy Morgan
#37. It's not about what you're saying, it's about how you listen.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#38. I've decided it's not about me at all. It's a protective mechanism for them, a way of buffering themselves against my future death, like when teenagers distance themselves from their parents in preparation for leaving home.
Sara Gruen
#39. It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#40. Sometimes it's not about your opinion; it's about what's right ... and knowing the difference.
Nina Guilbeau
#41. Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.
Steven Novella
#42. The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
David Mamet
#43. It's okay Luce, it's not about you, or how you used to eat your boogers until you were seven
Jay McLean
#44. Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.
LeBron James
#45. It's not about judging you, it's about changing your point of view.
Simone Milasas
#46. I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.
Keri Hilson
#47. Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity ... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.
Victor Hugo
#48. It's not about grand gestures.It's not about accolades.It's not about the world.It's about you.
K.J. Kilton
#49. It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.
Georges St-Pierre
#50. Family means something different with us because it has to. It's not about blood. It's not even about who we like. It's about who Andrew's willing to protect.
Nora Sakavic
#51. It's not about WHO is right, it's about WHAT is right.
Tara Dupuis
#52. It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.
A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help.
Donna Tartt
#54. We need to look at learning as the product of educational self-organization. It's not about making learning happen; it's about letting it happen.
Sugata Mitra
#55. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#56. But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.
Glenn Reynolds
#57. The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.
Rick Warren
#58. One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
Ken Blanchard
#59. It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?
Peter Doig
#60. It's not about eating, it's about feeding!
Jill Castle
#61. Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
Ben Nicholson
#62. (The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
Chris Gardner
#63. The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
Paul Merton
#64. The Final Jeopardy! questions seem to be, by design, things you can't know. And so it's not about who knows them, but who can figure them out in thirty seconds.
Ken Jennings
#65. It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept ... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Ralph Lauren
#66. You see, in every story, it's not about the ending. It's about the chapters in between and how you make it through them
Courtney Giardina
#67. Make choices that bring love and joy to your body. It's not about perfection; it's about love and gratitude for an amazing body that works hard and deserves your respect.
Alysia Reiner
#68. It's not about government telling people what to do ... It's about each of us, in our own families, in our own communities, standing up and demanding more for our kids. And it's about companies like Walmart answering that call.
Michelle Obama
#69. It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.
Fred Durst
#70. It's not about trying to be funny all the time. It's more of a document that hopefully is funny.
David Cross
#71. Knowledge management will never work
until corporations realize it's not about
how you capture knowledge but
how you create and leverage it.
Etienne Wenger
#72. You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
Kevin Hart
#73. We're going to kill them, aren't we?" William Ann asked.
"Yes."
"How much are they worth?"
"Sometimes, child, it's not about what a man is worth.
Brandon Sanderson
#74. It's not about him or you. It's what's between you, the connection.People can see it, even when you're trying to act casual. they don't want you, or him. Well, some do. But I think it's more...they want that energy, that ungraspable...something between you two."
"Is it love?
Jim Provenzano
#75. It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.
Kevin Jonas
#76. It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
Dan Auerbach
#77. A lot of people think that being a Gallagher Girl means not being afraid of anything. Actually, that couldn't be further from the truth. It's not about ignoring fear. It's about facing it, knowing the risks and the costs and sacrificing safety and security anyway.
Ally Carter
#78. One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'
Josh Dun
#79. It's not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.
Don Yaeger
#80. It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.
Elton John
#81. The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.
Fernando Torres
#82. So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.
Nick Hornby
#83. I think the whole of music comes down to one's personality. It's not about the notes or how you press the keys; it's where you are in your evolution of consciousness.
Ron Rothfield
#84. It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
Mark Cuban
#85. For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.
Fergie
#86. I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.
Noomi Rapace
#87. In Africa, you can make three acres sustainable relatively easily, but 50,000 acres? It's not about picking up towels or sleeping in a tent.
Jochen Zeitz
#88. It's not about the journey. It's about the people you meet.
Del Close
#89. It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.
Jaclyn Smith
#90. But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Warren Cuccurullo
#91. I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
Peter Zumthor
#92. My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison
#93. It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.
Deborah Bull
#94. There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin
#95. The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
Russell Hornsby
#96. Maybe it's not about the length of time you've known someone; maybe it's about instant recognition on an unconscious level. Our souls know each other.
S.E. Hall
#97. In the end, it's not about failure, it's about how much you love what you do.
Vera Wang
#98. Sometimes I just rely on technique on stage, but it's not about technique. It's about how much you want to deliver the message to the audience. That's all.
Miyavi
#99. It's not about a salary, it's all about reality.
KRS-One
#100. When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it's not about playing a part: you're not in a film pretending to be someone - you are yourself. It's intimidating.
Alexandra Maria Lara
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