Top 62 Made To Stick Quotes
#1. Stories should put knowledge into a frame work that is more lifelike.
Chip Heath
#2. I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
#3. Common sense is the enemy of sticky messages, if I already "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I be obsessed about remembering it.
Chip Heath
#5. No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
Michael K. Williams
#6. You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.
Chip Heath
#7. The gentlemanly Number 23 would have never made such a crude statement to a lady. But I was not a lady. Sure, I was intelligent and strong, but I dared to be wide open. I was Maggie Young, chaser of boys, writer of scandal, dropper of f-bombs, tits on a stick.
Maggie Young
#8. In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future.
Warren Ellis
#9. I don't understand anything ... and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact ... If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I've made up my mind to stick to the fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#10. Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
Chip Heath
#11. On most lines, making a sale without making a convert does not count for much. Sales made by conviction - by advertising - are likely to bring permanent customers. People who buy through casual recommendations often do not stick
Claude C. Hopkins
#12. That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn't a boy or a man on that lake that didn't know who you belonged to, and the minute there was even a whiff one of them was stepping over the line, they walked funny for a week.
Lora Leigh
#13. But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.
Andre Benjamin
#14. I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
Walter Cronkite
#15. You don't really need to make a vow to stick with someone in the best of times. The inclination to run doesn't exist then. It's the low times the covenant is made for.
Matt Chandler
#16. Plans are useful in the sense that they're proof that planning has taken place. The planning process forces people to think through the right issues. Bus as for the plans themselves they just don't work on the battle field
Chip Heath
#17. Whoa. It was hard to stick to my resolve of not caving to the ridiculous notion of us being together when he was actually ... nice, and when he stared at me like I was the last piece of chocolate in the whole world.
Which made me think of that damn chocolate chip cookie in his mouth.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#18. There's no such thing as a passive audience.
Chip Heath
#19. To get someone's attention break a pattern of thinking.
Chip Heath
#20. You say 10 things, you say nothing.
Chip Heath
#21. They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the latter made it so incredibly easy to poke them with a metaphorical stick.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#22. Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him." "Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick." She
J.D. Robb
#23. I don't want to understand anything now. I want to stick to the fact. I made up my mind long time ago. If I try to understand anything, I shall be false to the fact, and I have determined to stick to the fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. Just curious. Like James and Victoria had been curious in the beginning? The thought of Victoria made me tremble, thought the one thing they seemed certain of was that it had not been her. Not this time. She would stick to her obsessed pattern. This was just someone else, a stranger.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl - they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine.
Catherynne M Valente
#27. We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock
#28. I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.
Rick Riordan
#29. In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.
Michael Koryta
#30. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.
Erich Maria Remarque
#31. The company wants to sell you more shampoo, your friend doesn't, so she gets more trust points.
Chip Heath
#32. Use statistics as input not output. Use them to make up your mind on an issue.Don't make up your mind and then go looking for the number to support yourself.
Chip Heath
#33. I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.
Madhur Bhandarkar
#34. Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. I imagined your stick, washing in the waves for hundreds of years, turning to driftwood, smooth and hard like stone. I imagined a little girl finding it on a beach so many years later. Saving it on her shelf, where she put the things that made her feel like the world was magical.
Ava Dellaira
#36. But we made a pact that night to try. To stay true to ourselves and each other. It's what you have to do when you're a girl. Stick together. Remember what you love. And stay true.
C. Drew Lamm
#37. Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.
Thales
#39. We can't unlearn what we already know and there are only two ways to beat the curse, the first is not to learn anything, the second is to transform our ideas.
Chip Heath
#40. Beating the dead animals in the dissecting room with a stick." "Beating them with a stick!" "Yes, to see whether bruises could be made after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "But he is not a medical student?" "No. I have no idea what he wants to do with his studies. But here
Arthur Conan Doyle
#41. This is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood.
Regina Spektor
#42. You mustn't regret decisions that you make. Because the decisions are made out of your gut in a way and you have to stick with them.
Sydney Pollack
#43. I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.
Kevin Durant
#44. As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know : Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals
Chip Heath
#45. Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
Winston Churchill
#46. Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.
Chip Heath
#47. Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
Chip Heath
#48. I must learn to be as the bear in a cage with the stick that pokes it always, through the bars. The bear acts as if the stick is made of air, and takes no notice of it, even when it is sharpened and draws blood. I must do the same.
Ned Hayes
#49. You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.
Haruki Murakami
#50. The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.
Chip Heath
#51. I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me.
Agatha Christie
#52. I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
James Lipton
#53. But that is like saying that the hole in the sand looks like the stick that you made the hole in the sand with. Holes in the sand and sticks are worlds apart. To put what happened into language would be like trying to describe a stick by telling you about the hole in the sand.
Werner Erhard
#54. One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.
Jean De La Fontaine
#55. I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
Sarah Kay
#56. It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.
Jose Mourinho
#57. I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded.
Paula Poundstone
#58. The world is made out of Nutella. You just need to stick your tongue out, so that you could really taste it.
Nishikant
#59. I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.
Tom Colicchio
#60. The thing that men and women need to do is stick together
Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever
Q-Tip
#61. I found it harder and harder to stick to what was right, when what was expedient made better sense.
Charlaine Harris
#62. The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.
Chip Heath
