Top 100 Not Making Quotes
#1. I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
Tamra Davis
#3. I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work.
Laverne Cox
#4. But women are coming into Wall Street in large numbers - and they still are not making partner and are not getting into the positions that lead to the executive suites. There's still an old-boy network. You just have to keep fighting.
Muriel Siebert
#5. In addition to grand estate, Coucy clearly possessed a personal power of attraction and a faculty for not making enemies.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#6. During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.
Allison Anders
#7. Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.
Judith M Bardwick
#8. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
Michelle Word Hollis
#10. You're not making a whole lot of sense."
"I am in my head," I mutter. What does he need me to do here? Stand up on the table and yell, "Hello! Hot guy! I'm into you!
Allison Rushby
#11. I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.
Bryan Greenberg
#12. Wait a minute," he says, holding up one of his large handa. "A green bomb?"
"I'm not making this up."
"Why green, though?"
"Because green is the color of money, grass, oak leaves, and alien bombs. How the hell would I know why it was green?
Rick Yancey
#13. At one point, I had over 800 employees, and I always paid all health care for my people - including a man who was my assistant who got HIV. I wound up paying his medical bills, which went into the hundreds of thousands. I'm not making myself out to be a saint. I did the right thing.
Jerry Della Femina
#14. You keep talking, but you're not making any sense. Of course you upset someone in the government. You pretended to be the governor of New Jersey and confessed to a bunch of crimes."
I can't help the small smile that's playing at the corners of my mouth. "So," I say, "how did it go over?
Holly Black
#15. This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
Seth Godin
#16. If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Will Smith
#17. If you are not successful, that means you're not making enough mistakes.
Robert Kiyosaki
#18. Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears
Dora Okeyo
#19. You must be poor.
why?
cuz ur not making any cents!
Lisi Harrison
#20. I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.
Willem Dafoe
#21. If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
Hamza Yusuf
#22. When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.
Barack Obama
#23. The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.
Robert Novak
#24. I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine. I'm not worried about not making sense to people. That's probably my best asset.
Riz Ahmed
#25. And also the idea of not making it apparent that it's different from the rest of the film, even though there are visual differences, the audience is supposed to think that they are with him when he wakes up in the morning.
Charlie Kaufman
#27. That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
Guy Lafleur
#28. Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.
Claire Cook
#29. The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.
Roger Goodell
#30. The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#31. If you keep shouting, you are not making communication any better. You are only removing the talking and whispering from the system. I find our society a bit noisy. I would like to contribute a little silence.
Bruno Monguzzi
#32. It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.
Dee Hock
#33. My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.
Josh Groban
#34. I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#35. I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.
Lilly Singh
#36. If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
Claude Debussy
#37. Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
Dale Peck
#38. What I'm doing is creating a game. I'm not making a movie. To make the game more enjoyable and captivating, and to make the player feel like he's present in that setting, we need the cinematic element.
Hideo Kojima
#39. It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.
Carrie Mae Weems
#40. You have to muster a certain amount of belief that you're not making a mistake and you're not a fool. And this means you have to have faith.
Julia Cameron
#41. Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest.
Shannon L. Alder
#42. I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.
David Wells
#43. Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#44. The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.
Chester Barnard
#45. Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes, Only for that light I see 'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave, That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me
Cat Stevens
#46. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.
Wylie Dufresne
#47. as she slept, her period came because bodies know nothing about timing, bodies, awful bodies. They put a Rorschach between your thighs and stain your sheets to remind you that all you're doing is bleeding and dying if you're not making more life. That
Catherine Lacey
#48. I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.
Malcolm McDowell
#49. Respectfully, sir, the asteroid did not make you leave her. The asteroid is not making anyone do anything. It's just a big piece of rock floating through space. Anything anyone does remains their own decision.
Ben H. Winters
#50. If it's a sunny day, I get this weird guilt if I'm not making the most of it, so I'll walk or go for a swim or get on my bike, or I'll go to the Heath, just have a reason to get out.
James Norton
#51. Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.
Brian Chesky
#52. Amin, you're not making sense to me. Things have always been this way, since the beginning of time. Some die so others can be saved. You don't believe in the salvation of others?
Yasmina Khadra
#53. My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
Nick D'Aloisio
#54. My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.
Christina Aguilera
#55. I never wake up in the morning and wonder why I am here. I wake up and wonder why I am not making here better.
Jeffrey Fry
#56. I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that I can have the freedom to make them say and do what I want. The real-life journalists were fine with that.
Richard Shepard
#57. I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
Patsy Cline
#58. I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field ... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.
Michelle Rodriguez
#59. If I spend 100 days in a row making music there's a chance nothing will come of it. But if I spend 100 days not making music it's guaranteed that nothing will come of it. So keep working.
Moby
#60. If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.
John C. Maxwell
#61. In not making the decision, you've made one. Not doing something is the same as doing it.
Iwan Bloch
#62. My first program taught me a lot about the errors that I was going to be making in the future, and also about how to find errors. That's sort of the story of my life, making errors and trying to recover from them. I try to get things correct. I probably obsess about not making too many mistakes.
Donald Knuth
#63. If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
Sheryl Sandberg
#64. You can't ask someone who is not making that kind of money to go to the record store and buy an album when someone down the street has the same record with same sound quality for $5.
Queen Latifah
#65. Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don't make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
Al Yankovic
#66. You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.
Bum Phillips
#67. It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting.
River Phoenix
#69. There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.
Mikal Cronin
#70. I'm looking for activity. I put players in and take them out based on effort and defense, not making or missing shots
Doc Rivers
#71. If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being
making advice, not
be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.
George W. Bush
#72. Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
Zubin Mehta
#73. I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.
Diamanda Galas
#74. IF you are not making mistakes, then you are not doing anything ...
John Wooden
#75. I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.
Debby Ryan
#76. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Alexander Pope
#77. You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.
Abhishek Bachchan
#78. If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
C.S. Lewis
#79. The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.
Liam Gallagher
#80. I don't believe in leaving a scene in because it was really hard to shoot, or because it's the reason you took the movie, or because you always wanted to work with an actor ... If it's not making the movie work, get rid of it.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#81. For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
Al Goldstein
#82. Seems where you're concerned nothing is easy, so no, I'm not making this easy when everything about you makes me hard." I sucked in sharply at that blatant sexual reference, and swear I felt my nipples get hard.
"Jack, I -
C.P. Smith
#83. He felt a mixture of fear and excitement, but his main concerns were not dying, making his mentors proud, and not making a fool of himself, in that order of importance.
Wesley Chu
#84. If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
Dale Earnhardt
#86. There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it.
Will Rogers
#87. If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
Paul J. Meyer
#88. What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
David Plouffe
#89. My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.
Louis Oosthuizen
#90. Don't be scared of making mistakes," she said, waiting for me to look at her before continuing. "Be scared of making none. Because if you're not making a healthy number of mistakes along the way, you're not really living life to its fullest.
Nicole Williams
#91. Is it normal to regret not making a sex tape back when you were younger and your boobs still pointed vaguely at the ceiling when you were lying on your back? Because I feel like no one ever talks about that.
Jenny Lawson
#92. I kissed his cheek, damp and salty. I could feel his heart beating against my ribs, and wanted nothing more than to stay there forever, not moving, not making love, just breathing the same air.
Diana Gabaldon
#93. I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.
Taylor Momsen
#94. I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Benjamin Franklin
#95. Do you have a boyfriend?" he asked.
"Huh?" Why would he ask her that?
"A big, mean-as-fuck, jealous guy who will break my neck with his bare hands if he knew I touched you?"
Toni shook her head.
"A raging case of herpes?"
"Of course not!"
"You're not making this any easier on me.
Olivia Cunning
#96. Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.
Pat Benatar
#98. If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.
Sallie Krawcheck
#99. I honestly think that's one of the greatest motivators of art - the fear of not making great art.
Jason McCoy
#100. A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.
Harry Morgan
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