Quotes About Sticking To Yourself

#1. As for my constant low-grade state of confusion - the Blur is a term that seems to be sticking - let me break it into three categories: (1) things I should know but never learned, (2) things I choose not to know, and (3) things I know but totally screw up.

Maria Semple

#2. If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

Nate Silver

#3. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

Gene Simmons

#4. Unlike some people, I don't have the urge to go sticking my fingers in it.

Rachel Hawkins

#5. Taking a solemn oath and sticking to it casts everything in a different light and infuses the ordinary with significance. It can change a person more radically than any drug or many years of therapy.

Jeanne Safer

#6. Love was sticking by the person you most cared about through the good and the bad. Love was being there when no one else wanted to. Love was growing old together.

Megan C. Smith

#7. If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

Allison Janney

#8. The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, "When my arm jiggles, I want it to look less like a pelican's throat-pouch choking down a bass.

Colin Nissan

#9. There never will be a book, because some one else has written it for him," said Mr. Pepper with considerable acidity. "That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.

Denis Waitley

#11. I love rehearsals and I love creating a character, sticking with it until you have something to tell. It's always different though. Sometimes a director will tell you from day one what they want. Then you throw in your idea.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#12. I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.

Holly Black

#13. Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.

Kami Garcia

#14. But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.

Ilsa J. Bick

#15. The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

Carol S. Dweck

#16. What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

John Connolly

#17. So the secret is just to say 'Yes!' and jump off from here. Then there is no problem. It means to be yourself, always yourself, without sticking to an old self.

Shunryu Suzuki

#18. I'm always saying a mother never loses her peach pit instinct. Even with a grown son, you have to stop yourself from sticking out your hand when your child finishes a piece of fruit.

Joshua Henkin

#19. Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

Ramana Maharshi

#20. A saying, since a saying arises always from the mouths of adults when a person was just a listening child, was supposed to carry you back there, like a magic trick or a scrap of a story, or something with something else still sticking to it.

Sebastian Barry

#21. I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.

Sam Hunt

#22. Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head.

Martin Espada

#23. I keep my diet simple by sticking to mostly fruits and vegetables all day and then having whatever I want for dinner. I end up making healthy choices, like sushi or grilled fish, because I feel so good from eating well.

Jennifer Morrison

#24. In order to approximate dinosaurian physiology, the trio of scientists carried out the unenviable task of sticking thermometers in the cloacae of American alligators.

Brian Switek

#25. For decades now, the Democrats have had a good gig buying the votes of government workers with outrageous salaries, benefits and work rules - and then sticking productive earners with the bill. But, now, we're out of money.

Ann Coulter

#26. If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

#27. I learned the most from sticking with my dream even when all signs told me it was time to let go.

Ann Patchett

#28. When introducing a character, you're usually better off sticking with broad strokes. The important thing at that point is not what color hair someone has or how tall they are, but rather, what kind of person they are.

Jason Black

#29. His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a finger's width into the stone, his hand on the hilt. The Blade reflected torchlight; it was long, narrow, and straight, shaped like an enormous spike.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. Marriage is a journey of disasters, only to fall in love all over again, with the person that rescues you each time.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it

Virginia Woolf

#32. Sticking to old and narrow views of life makes us look foolish in God

Sunday Adelaja

#33. As much as agreeable people may love us, they often hate conflict even more. Their desire to please others and preserve harmony makes them prone to backing down instead of sticking up for us. "Because

Adam M. Grant

#34. One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

Garry Kasparov

#35. If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.

Alan Rogers

#36. I really do like surprises. I'm not so talented at planning things out or having schedules before or sticking to the plan per se, but yeah I'm very much a spontaneous guy and it's sort of hard for me to multi-task and to have all these things going on at once.

Adam Young

#37. There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Paul Pierce

#38. Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.

Emeril Lagasse

#39. Equipment will never help you write a lot; only making a schedule and sticking to it will make you a productive writer.

Paul J. Silvia

#40. -I suck cock because I like cock. I like getting my cock sucked and I really--yes, really--like sucking the cocks of other men! And you know what I like the best of all? I like sticking my cock up some other man's ass!

Tali Spencer