To Get Something Quotes

#1. I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

Jimi Hendrix

#2. My characters tend, if wounded, to be emotionally resourceful. Often they're in that way station between when loss happens and when it can be fully comprehended. In the meantime they're fighting to get something back, and occasionally they prevail in surprising ways.

Tom Barbash

#3. I don't know if the optimists
or the pessimists are right.
But, the optimists are going to get something done.

Craig Venter

#4. I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

Ridley Scott

#5. I'd like to get something small and self-generated in before Black Rock has whatever life that it has.

Katie Aselton

#6. The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

Brendan Behan

#7. If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.

Stephen Covey

#8. If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.

Neal Stephenson

#9. He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.

Ken Follett

#10. The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Mark Burnett

#11. There needs to be more Kander & Ebbs and Rodgers & Harts and people like that out there. But, it's so hard to get something looked at and on.

Ruthie Henshall

#12. You've got to give something you never gave to get something you never had ...

Ray Hunt

#13. I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

Jenny Lewis

#14. Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

Tracy Morgan

#15. Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

Miranda Lambert

#16. Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?

Richard M. Nixon

#17. The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Richard Bach

#18. 20-some years ago, I'd have a big old radio with a tape deck, and I'd hit record and try to get something down on the tape, but nowadays, I can use my handy little smart-phone; I sing into the app for voice memo.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#19. I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we had to get something accepted by a national magazine to get an A. The teacher later withdrew that threat, but the writing bug bit me.

Laurence Yep

#20. Booger looms large in my legend, so I want to get something clear before we go any further: I hated him on sight.

Curtis Armstrong

#21. Who's elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here?

Roseanne Barr

#22. In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

Edward Norton

#23. It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Jeremy Irons

#24. I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.

Walt Disney

#25. I have roles in plays that I hope that I'll be able to do one day. I might be doing them at, like, the East Wilton Playhouse in wherever. But I think that Edie Falco ... to get something even resembling her type of roles, that would be amazing.

Mamie Gummer

#26. I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -

August Wilson

#27. If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.

Marshawn Lynch

#28. I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. Some people have to move, physically, to "get" something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.

David Allen

#30. Fasting and praying gets you to where God wants you to be. You must make the sacrifice of fasting and praying to get something extraordinary from God.

Robert N. Fortson Sr.

#31. Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Joe Hill

#32. The way I look at the world, if you can't find a way to get something good out of the experience, then you have lived an unhappy life. All the actors I have worked with, superstars or otherwise, I have enjoyed.

James Rebhorn

#33. The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#34. Most people want their representatives to get something done.

Joe Lieberman

#35. Magic doesn't mean to earn something or to get something. Magic is the will power. You can grow crops, but you can't create them. Difference is, one is the will power and the other is temptation. Magic selects the eligible but can't give them the proper direction.

Anurag Bhatt

#36. That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

#37. The translucent life is very much about overflowing with a gift to the world, rather than being here to consume or to get something for yourself.

Arjuna Ardagh

#38. I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Deb Caletti

#39. We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Melinda Clarke

#40. God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

Mother Angelica

#41. It's about purpose. About always coming back to being kind to another being instead of trying to get something from them.

Dakota Lane

#42. When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

Danny Pintauro

#43. A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

Harry Callahan

#44. As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.

Nate Ruess

#45. The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#46. I'd been in a couple situations where I'd seen bands realize that they didn't have to get a good take in order to get something that sounded like a song. The musicians are there and they don't quite have it together, and then the engineer says, "Oh! That's okay, I'll just cut and paste the verse!"

J. Robbins

#47. When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Haruki Murakami

#48. Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

Julia Cameron

#49. People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.

Marilyn Manson

#50. My process is messy and non-linear, full of false starts, fidgets, and errands that I suddenly need to run now; it is a battle to get something - anything - down on paper. I doodle in sketchbooks: bits of ideas, fragments of sentences, character names, single lines of dialogue with no context.

Ellen Klages

#51. Anyone who wants to vote probably shouldn't be allowed to vote. Voting is the first step towards zombification - trying to get something without actually working for it.

Bill Bonner

#52. You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning ... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Peter Wolf

#53. Sometimes you have to give something up to get something better.

Miranda Kenneally

#54. Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.

Pietro Aretino

#55. to get something done:

Various

#56. To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

Robert Copeland

#57. I'm not lazy, but I don't have that spur on my ass that most people have, like, "Oh, god. I have to get something out or else my career will be over!" I don't really care if my career is over.

Fiona Apple

#58. if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's

Rod Dreher

#59. Improvisation is about finding the best joke or the silliest way to get something across. Improvising conflict is always fun because you can just go for it.

Ed Helms

#60. Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

Loretta Chase

#61. That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

Rutina Wesley

#62. Yes, you have to move. I think it might be a good idea to get something inside you."
"But I just had something inside me."
Logan groaned and dropped his head forward to the crook of Tate's neck and shoulder. "You get dirtier every fucking day I know you, I swear.

Ella Frank

#63. Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.

Peter Drucker

#64. If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

Jamie Bell

#65. So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Raekwon

#66. I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Robert Cormier

#67. Buddha is not someone you pray to, or try to get something from. Nor is a buddha someone you bow down to. A buddha is simply a person who is awake - nothing more or less.

Steve Hagen

#68. Charity is all very nice,but people want to get something out of it.That's the principle of charity affairs.

Simone De Beauvoir

#69. Well, it's nice to get something right for a change. You don't know how irritating it is - missing things the way I have been. I feel so useless. So ... normal." She cringed in horror of the word.
"I can't imagine how awful that must feel. Being normal? Ugh.

Stephenie Meyer

#70. Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Charlotte Bunch

#71. Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.

Liz Phair

#72. A lot of things get made this way: someone imagines what they want to make, then very carefully plans every step of the process, then sets about making it. That's usually the efficient, reasonable way to get something done, but it limits you to ideas you can think of in advance.

Damian Kulash

#73. As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Robert Caro

#74. One thing that never changed among humans: there were always those who wanted to get something for nothing. It was what kept hell in business.

Richelle Mead

#75. Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#76. You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

Anton Corbijn

#77. Indeed that is what our lives are, a project of recovery and restitution; or we have to ironize our always wanting to get something back that we never had and that never existed anyway

Adam Phillips

#78. Where's Jude?' I asked. Martin knelt to get something from his bass case, and then turned to me. His voice was strung tight, savage and bitter. 'He wanted me to give this to you.' He held up a silver case, condensation on the outside, and Jude within.

Maggie Stiefvater

#79. When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

John Breaux

#80. [T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.

Antony C. Sutton

#81. I was trying to match my mental image of the world, rather than the world itself, and mental images of objects aren't full of detail. If you think house, you're going to get something very general ... Dropping detail made the photographs more general, like mental images.

Judy Fiskin

#82. There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Robert D. Hare

#83. From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#84. Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.

Kanye West

#85. I'm not a technical person, at all, but you get a little bit more of a sense for how to get something done a little bit more efficiently. I think everybody is in that place where it's a little bit more efficient, but the process is still the same, which is still loose and collaborative.

Ty Burrell

#86. Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

David Belle

#87. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished.

Joe Torre

#88. Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?

Miranda Kenneally

#89. It's okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.

Seth Godin

#90. Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Kenneth Chenault

#91. I don't get writer's block because I don't believe in it. I believe you sit in front of the computer and force your fingers to get something on the screen.

Janet Evanovich

#92. We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

Donald Trump

#93. War vies with magic in its efforts to get something for nothing.

Lewis Mumford

#94. I write two hours in the morning and two hours before bed no matter. No matter what. I also write during the day if I have to get something down, but the four hours a day is the one thing in my life I don't fool with.

Kiese Laymon

#95. My belly does a flip and I get goosebumps on my arms. I'm so used to people translating every nice thing I ever do as me trying to get something for myself that I just presume people think the worst of me the whole time.

Dawn O'Porter

#96. When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.

Al-Hanouf Halawi

#97. Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

Eleanor Smeal

#98. I'm going to get something from the salad bar. Do you want a Frosty from Wendy's, Alex?

Bryan Norford

#99. The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

Sherry Argov

#100. It's never been easier for audiences to skip, filter, or avoid advertising, so the best ideas are the ones that respect that the audience needs to get something out of the work; it should inspire, satisfy, or motivate them. You can't just bombard people with messages anymore.

Ajaz Ahmed