Top 100 Oakley's Quotes
#1. I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.
James Herriot
#2. My ideal guy is my future husband. Not sure who he is yet, but he's out there. What impresses me in a gay guy? A warm smile, stubble, easy to talk to, thoughtful tattoos, kind eyes, wit, positivity, wanderlust, ambition, and a cute ass.
Tyler Oakley
#3. A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it.
Tyler Oakley
#4. I don't think kids should think their lives have to be perfect or have a filter or the best angle or anything like that. I think it's important to see that everybody is human and everyone has their ups and downs.
Tyler Oakley
#5. To me, what's really an important difference between traditional entertainment and digital - on YouTube specifically - is that people thrive when they're authentic about themselves.
Tyler Oakley
#6. If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today.
Tyler Oakley
#7. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.
Annie Oakley
#8. On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity.
Tyler Oakley
#9. I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!
Tyler Oakley
#10. What separates us from other camera companies is that the vision guy is the decision maker. That was one of my biggest advantages at Oakley, and it's the same at Red - I'm in the trenches, in the product development, and I make the final call.
James Jannard
#11. Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality.
Barbara Oakley
#12. When it came to 'Binge,' it wasn't my intention to get on a little soapbox and have a teaching moment. It was more, 'Here are things that have happened to me; here's what I've learned from it. If you'd like to learn from it too, great; if you just like the entertainment aspect, that's fine too.'
Tyler Oakley
#13. I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies.
Annie Oakley
#14. Tomorrow is another day, we rather hope it will be better but better it won't be unless self-foibles are examined.
Barbara Oakley
#15. If you don't make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your "metabolic vampires" can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen and solidify.
Barbara Oakley
#17. 2015 was, like, packed from January. 2016 is simultaneously open and packed - but I'm trying to keep 2016 open as possible so I can do weird, crazy, kooky stuff.
Tyler Oakley
#18. Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
Ann Oakley
#19. it depicted the idea of recognizing your inner demons and, instead of running from them, learning to live with them. I
Tyler Oakley
#20. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
Barbara Oakley
#21. Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights.
Tyler Oakley
#22. My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.
Bubba Watson
#23. Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.
Craig Kelly
#24. The workroom radio, tuned to FM 88.9, emitted Muddy Waters's throaty warbling. A rez station, WOJB did its best to hit every level of musical taste. Absolute bite-ya-in-the-ass blues was aired only during the wee hours.
Tracker's favorite time and music.
Mardi Oakley Medawar
#25. Even if I spend every waking moment attempting to keep my life in balance, I'm going to fuck up. Having
Tyler Oakley
#26. In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community.
Tyler Oakley
#27. Besides all that, she's hilarious and warm and knows when I need a hug, and just how long the hug needs to be for me to not feel like crying anymore.
Tyler Oakley
#28. All the money that's donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It's a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other.
Tyler Oakley
#29. Listen, your asshole is precious. It deserves to be shown love, and that's all I'm doing. Let me live. Let your asshole live.
Tyler Oakley
#30. With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.
Tyler Oakley
#31. I definitely have aspirations outside of YouTube, but I think there's a lot of people on YouTube who want to leave YouTube. I don't want to leave; I love it.
Tyler Oakley
#32. I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.
Tyler Oakley
#33. Since the beginning, I have always tried to just be me. There have been moments in my career as a YouTuber where I've recognized that I'm trying to emulate something else, or I'm being heavily influenced by a YouTuber or something like that, and I realize that's not what I want to be putting out.
Tyler Oakley
#34. There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.
Tyler Oakley
#35. I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.
Tyler Oakley
#36. For Oakley, I'm basically a media vehicle for them to promote the product. For me, it's both, I get a salary from them, but I also get great products so it just kind of works, continues on.
Craig Kelly
#37. But for me to give you Mathew right off the bat...that's me trusting you, It's me saying hi, welcome to my life, not everything is perfect or edited with jump cuts. That's Tyler. You know Tyler. It's time for me to tell you all of Mathew's stories." (pg 4)
Tyler Oakley
#38. There's no Hollywood tradition of maybe not telling people that you're gay to protect your future ambitions. The YouTube world is a little unprecedented. I think what people are seeing is that the more true to yourself you are, the more an audience will connect with you.
Tyler Oakley
#39. I've been patient with everything - management, coaches, players - but I want to play. I think I took my time eating my soup, the soup is gone. Now it's time for the main course. The appetizers, throw them out the window.
Charles Oakley
#40. In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.
Tyler Oakley
#41. When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.
Tyler Oakley
#42. Prior to 2015, I had kind of approached every year like, 'Let's hope for the best.' I always made these year-end videos with 100 things I did, and it would kind of build itself up throughout the year. When this year started, it was like I knew the 100 things before I even got to do them.
Tyler Oakley
#43. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.
Annie Oakley
#44. It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.
Tyler Oakley
#45. Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Ann Oakley
#46. Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.
Tyler Oakley
#47. I'm essentially working from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. It's my biggest hobby but also my favorite career that I could ever have. Every single platform is important.
Tyler Oakley
#48. She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.
Barack Obama
#49. Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.
Tyler Oakley
#50. Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.
Tyler Oakley
#51. Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little voice will tell you which number to press. If you have borderline personality disorder hang up; you have already pushed everybody's buttons.
Barbara Oakley
#52. Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?
Oakley Hall
#53. If you'd like to see how to apply these ideas directly to memorizing formulas, try out the SkillsToolbox website for a list of easy-to-remember visuals for mathematical symbols.7
Barbara Oakley
#55. Relationships don't dissolve over one event, one fight, it's a thousand blows, delivered over time, uppercuts, jabs, crosses, some you barely even feel, and then before you know it, you're on the ground seeing stars and wondering what the hell happened!
Colleen Oakley
#56. Homophobic people are outdated and life is too short to put up with them.
Tyler Oakley
#57. why do people always say they could get hit by a bus? Like life is just one big game of Frogger and people are getting struck left and right by dangerous city transport.
Colleen Oakley
#58. There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality.
Tyler Oakley
#59. Science can't explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can.
Colleen Oakley
#61. I hope to introduce my audience to who I think is the next class of YouTuber.
Tyler Oakley
#62. The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat.
Oakley Hall
#63. Tyler is who I generously offer, at school, in life, on YouTube. Mathew is what my parents and siblings call me...I've always been both, and to some people I'm more than the other." (pg 4)
Tyler Oakley
#64. The movie was always something that was always kind of like a dream. From the start of making my YouTube videos, I've always been sharing my thoughts or opinions or just updating people on my life, but the movie is more of a behind-the-scenes look at what actually goes into my life.
Tyler Oakley
#65. I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.
Tyler Oakley
#66. Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.
Tyler Oakley
#67. When life throws a wrench in your plans, catch it and build an IKEA bookshelf.
Tyler Oakley
#68. My mother ... was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.
Annie Oakley
#69. I'm a casual watcher. I like to stream everything.
Tyler Oakley
#70. The Internet is accelerating the speed of acceptance and social justice.
Tyler Oakley
#71. but he killed the best Disney villain of all time, the drag queen that is Ursula. Unforgivable. RIP. 4.
Tyler Oakley
#72. Every relationship ends, unless one doesn't. And everything we've learned from the relationships leading up to that last one has been the training we needed to make that final one last.
Tyler Oakley
#73. I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's also a buffet - with unlimited orange chicken from Panda Express, curly fries from Arby's, Hawaiian pizza from Sbarro, and Coke Zero. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures.
Tyler Oakley
#74. I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.
Tyler Oakley
#75. I spend all day replying to tweets and reblogging posts and sharing fan art. I think it's the most important thing I can possibly do, to stay involved in the community as a part of the community, not ahead of the community. I'm very much the same level of them in it.
Tyler Oakley
#76. If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Ann Oakley
#77. This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people.
Barbara Oakley
#78. I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos.
Tyler Oakley
#79. For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.
Tyler Oakley
#80. Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance.
Annie Oakley
#81. Part of the beauty of falling in love with you is the fear you won't fall.
Tyler Oakley
#82. Julie Chen. She's my ultimate celebrity idol. I think she's one of the most amazing interviewers and hosts ever - and would kill to pick her brain. I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.
Tyler Oakley
#84. This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim.
Barbara Oakley
#85. It's normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It's how you handle those feelings that matters.
Barbara Oakley
#86. Once you dye your hair for the first time, you see other people with dyed hair, and you see them differently than you did before. And you're just like 'Yes! Live! Work that color! Yes, I love you in every way! You're killin' it! I want to do that color next!'
Tyler Oakley
#87. whatever you're learning, see whether you can make a metaphor to help yourself understand the most difficult topic - you'll be surprised at how much it can bring the key idea to life.
Barbara Oakley
#88. In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.
Tyler Oakley
#89. Over my lifetime, I've had an interesting relationship with poop...the rectum is a grand thing. My favorite thing about the human body is that we're all basically doughnuts.
Tyler Oakley
#90. One thing I've learned best from my mom is to be yourself and not everyone will get you and that's okay. I try to bring that into everything that I do and just understand that I will not be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine.
Tyler Oakley
#91. I suppose all couples feel this way at some point - that their bond is the most special, the strongest, the Greatest Love of All. Not all the time, just in those few and far between moments where you look at the person you're with and think: Yes. It's you.
Colleen Oakley
#92. I could pick a favorite YouTuber, maybe I would say GloZell.
Tyler Oakley
#93. I try to surround myself with a good support system. Whether that's other creators or my family or my friends, or even my viewers, who encourage me just as much as I might encourage them and they're just as much a part of my life as they let me be a part of theirs.
Tyler Oakley
#94. Every video I make, I want to make sure that it's doing something entertaining or hopefully inspiring or maybe teaching somebody something or sharing my mistakes so that they can learn from them or anything that will make a positive impact in the world.
Tyler Oakley
#95. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.
Annie Oakley
#96. again - I've realized that's what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I'm hopeful that one day I'll feel better more often than I feel worse - so
Colleen Oakley
#97. Einstellung effect (pronounced EYE-nshtellung). In this phenomenon, an idea you already have in mind, or your simple initial thought, prevents a better idea or solution from being found.
Barbara Oakley
#98. You want your brain to become used to the idea that just knowing how to use a particular problem-solving technique isn't enough - you also need to know when to use it.
Barbara Oakley
#99. LYB NBC - which means "love ya, babe; nuts, back & critters" - the first half being pretty self-explanatory. Less obviously, "nuts, back, and critters" means watch out for crazy people, watch your back because you can't trust anyone, and don't run over any animals.
Tyler Oakley
#100. I found a vlogger named William Sledd who talked about his life - it was very minimal edits. It was one of those things where I discovered him, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm obsessed with him.' I felt like I was friends with him. And he was a huge inspiration for why I made my first video.
Tyler Oakley
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