Quotes About Getting It

#1. Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

Harbhajan Singh

#2. To me the key thing is getting it right. And if a person's really smart and they're doing fantastic work, I don't care if they're a high school kid or a Harvard professor; it's the work that matters.

Jimmy Wales

#3. I think the people of this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong.

Michael Gove

#4. Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.

Richard Rhodes

#5. When you've got guys on base, you have to hit. I concentrate on getting it done.

Miguel Cabrera

#6. Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".

Kim Smith

#7. Don't ever be sorry for being who you are. Most of us go our whole lives not really getting it right, just settling." He tugged a strand of her hair. "Do you have any idea the strength it takes to not settle? To keep pushing and seeking for what works?

Jill Shalvis

#8. I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanley Crouch

#9. When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

Myrna Loy

#11. Mathematicians need to understand a problem only for themselves; math teachers need both to know the math and to know how 30 different minds might understand (or misunderstand) it. Then they need to take each mind from not getting it to mastery. And they need to do this in 45 minutes or less.

Elizabeth Green

#12. I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

John Oates

#13. I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

John Sayles

#14. On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

Ilona Andrews

#15. It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

Lykke Li

#16. If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

Amy Adams

#17. If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the ?Thing all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Actors: We have to remind ourselves that it's not about 'getting it right.' There is no 'right.' Your courage to bare your soul is what's right.

Gregor Collins

#19. I wanted a child, and there was no way I could get pregnant under the stress of 18-hour work days and live TV. When you're somebody who's used to making a decision about what they want to do and getting it and achieving it, when your body fails you, it's a whole other experience.

Kara DioGuardi

#20. I think we have to change our thinking and the music industry has to shift and look at how people are acquiring their music now. They want it differently. They're getting it in a different way and you just have to adjust.

Warryn Campbell

#21. James Franco has this interesting and relaxed look. It's pretty 'I don't care,' but it still looks good. Ryan Gosling also has amazing style. I take a lot of my fashion tips from those two. In my opinion, they're the ones getting it right.

Josh Henderson

#22. Had she been a more instinctive, "natural" cook, she might have felt less compelled to parse each recipe, to tackle each one as though getting it right were a matter of life and death.

Karen Karbo

#23. The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting ... It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.

Richard Steele

#24. Infants need the most sleep, and, what is more, get it. Stunning them with a soft, padded hammer is the best way to insure their getting it at the right times.

Robert Benchley

#25. We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it.

Adam Phillips

#26. Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#27. I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're ... sensible.

Jack Dee

#28. This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right. Yes, it's a bit chaotic. Certainly we will get some things wrong.

Chuck Wendig

#29. There is a big difference between wishing you was doing something and the actual getting it done. And this wasn't no back room in a bar or glory hole where I didn't even have to look at who I was with. This was Kabe.

James Buchanan

#30. Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Douglas Coupland

#31. Whatever it is out there, is better equipped than you are. It can see better and hear better and smell better. All you're got on it is brains. Your only chance of getting it is

Pat Frank

#32. Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing. You can do anything you want with it, but you can't own it. You can spend it, but you can't keep it. And once you've lost it, there is no getting it back. It's just gone.

Allison DuBois

#33. Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.

Thomas Harris

#34. The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

Anne Rice

#35. I didn't want to just watch a woman who was getting it right all the time. We're not perfect.

Brie Larson

#36. Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

L. Frank Baum

#37. Life is already together, and what you have to experience is experiencing it being together. The striving to put it together is a denial of the truth that it is actually already together and further striving keeps you from getting it together.

Werner Erhard

#38. We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.

Ron Paul

#39. In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.

Ellen Goodman

#40. They seem to be getting it together. How much damage will the picture of people spending four or five days on rooftops do That depends on how well it goes from here on out.

James Carville

#41. While others were dreaming about it - I was getting it done.

Nathan W. Morris

#42. I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If you moved your hips and the girls screamed, you were getting it right. Who wouldn't want to be like Elvis or Jim Morrison!

Ricky Martin

#43. You've been getting it. Big fat doses of the truth. it's ugly, isn't it?
Sometimes.
And you still want it?
Always ... I'm not afraid. Besides, God is my shield. You don't have to be.

Glenn Beck

#44. I think mostly about intention and obstacle somebody wants something somethings standing in their way of getting it.

Aaron Sorkin

#45. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#46. It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.

Mary Deasy

#47. The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Tom Duff

#48. I would (have sex with another woman). Sometimes I feel attracted to other women. It's almost more exciting to watch women getting it on than men ...

Sofia Hellqvist

#49. Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and what is decent and the part of us that is self-serving. The part that wants what it wants regardless of who is hurt getting it.

Kinley MacGregor

#50. If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

Amanda Crew

#51. If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

Paulo Coelho

#52. If you think about it even medium-hard, launching a scared little dog into space with no intention of getting it back is a seriously fucked thing to do.

Chris Onstad

#53. I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

Howard Jacobson

#54. For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Paula Cole

#55. She comes from the school of getting it out of your system,
whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

Melina Marchetta

#56. There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

Dominic Cooper

#57. Back from 'Roam if she wants to'!" yelled Renee. She had that condition unique to choreographers and directors, where they can listen to the same line or lyric thousands of times without ever getting it right.

Mara Wilson

#58. Writing a book isn't just about 'writing a book.' Unfortunately, it's about selling it, and getting it out to the masses.

Margaret Aranda

#59. Being a businessman, you want to invest your time and your heart into growth and a legacy, and sometimes it's about going over there and getting it. But you don't have to lose yourself.

Anthony Hamilton

#60. You can just keep getting it worse until you have to pull back and let the audience breathe. But yeah, I really love digging.

Ricky Gervais

#61. This life is not about getting it right
It's about taking the steps that will
show who you are
There is no prescribed formula
Just try and figure it out with every step

Malebo Sephodi

#62. Next to my green eyes, my blond hair is definitely my best feature. So, out of obligation to all the blondes before me (Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, the many Barbies I have loved and tortured), I tend to spend hours getting it right. You know, so as not to let down the team.

Sarah Strohmeyer

#63. We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.

Gene Luen Yang

#64. I do need a bit of a trim but I'm a bit nervous about getting it cut

Andrew Symonds

#65. That was the difference between her and the idiots of the world. They were all trying to look smart and keep their social standing. Whereas Valentine didn't care about social standing, she cared about getting it right. Getting the truth.

Orson Scott Card

#66. I'm definitely an outdoorsy guy. I like hiking, outdoor workouts with body weight. But when it comes to getting it done, I can just get in the gym and pound it out.

Derek Theler

#67. I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#68. It's not getting it right the first time
it's learning to do it right and then not getting lazy.

Susan Mallery

#69. I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.

Paul Sorvino

#70. Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

Eban Goodstein

#71. It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

Elizabeth Spelke

#72. I've never needed lubricant unless I'm getting it in the ass.

C.D. Reiss

#73. Christmas isn't about getting, it's about giving, and when you give someone your love, that's the greatest gift of all. That's what God gave to us.

Frank Vincent Nunez

#74. Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Robin Hobb

#75. If you aren't ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward.

Valentine Glass

#76. In order to survive, I came up with a five-step secret to getting it all done. If you're busy too, feel free to use it:
1. Admit that you can't possibly get it all done.

Jon Acuff

#77. And it sounds like two tectonic plates are getting it on somewhere beneath us

Daniel Jose Older

#78. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.

Woodrow Wyatt

#79. Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it.

Albert Mohler

#80. You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

Aaron Sorkin

#81. Nobody in America who wants pot has any trouble getting it, so maybe that's why we aren't seeing support for legalization. People don't think it's necessary to legalize it, because it's so easy to get it.

Bill Maher

#82. Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you
it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#83. Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

Ted Allen

#84. Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now.

Picabo Street

#85. I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

Marion Barry

#86. Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.

Dani Shapiro

#87. It's difficult sometimes to tell the difference between what is impossible and what is possible (but requires a big reach). At a creative company, mistaking one for the other can be fatal - but getting it right always elevates.

Ed Catmull

#88. I love the discipline. I love the schedule of pushing your body to an extreme and getting it to a particular type of physical shape. Learning a new self defense or some kind of martial art that I didn't know before and the loving of that is also hating that at the same time.

Jessica Biel

#89. With the hugely talented women I've worked with or observed, it's not a question about temperament or ego; it's a question about getting it right. If they've got a reputation for being difficult it's usually because they just don't suffer fools.

Glenn Close

#90. In this country, people are concerned about their economic future. They're very concerned about it. And they wonder whether somebody is getting something to - keeping them from getting it. That's not the America that I've ever known.

John Kasich

#91. I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Tanith Lee

#92. Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science.

Rebecca Goldstein

#93. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

Penelope J. Stokes

#94. Damn and blast!" "Curates can't use language like that," I reminded my brother, and he grinned involuntarily. "I'm getting it out of my system," was his excuse.

Susanna Kearsley

#95. I remember so many times taking classes and feeling completely discouraged because I felt like I wasn't getting it and I couldn't understand. I kept working at it and I kept going back to class, and I wouldn't let myself get intimidated or get scared away, and it really does pay off.

Meaghan Rath

#96. I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Anthony Kiedis

#97. All my life I've been dealing with my race because of where I grew
up [Detroit] and being in the rap game. I'm at a boiling
point ... Anybody who pulls the race card is getting it right back in
their face.

Eminem

#98. I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

Robert Smith

#99. It's all about training and rhythm and getting it right on the day.

Jonathan Edwards

#100. Don't you dare touch yourself today. I want your orgasm and I plan on getting it later.

T.K. Leigh