You Sit Quotes

#1. Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.

George Lucas

#2. The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a light show inwardly and outwardly with the vortexes of energy as you sit there. It's no big deal. It's just what I do.

Frederick Lenz

#4. When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

Little Richard

#5. I've had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn't have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.

Robert Culp

#6. Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.

Sally Stanford

#7. Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

Bill Cosby

#8. Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#9. Can't you see me as king of the Hereford ranchers, Lucy?"
"Oh, I can see you, all right ... I can see you riding out on your beautiful palomino checking the herd ... There you sit, silhouetted against the evening sky ... Sucking your thumb and holding that stupid blanket!

Charles M. Schulz

#10. I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.

Thomas Tull

#11. Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.

Nick Cave

#12. If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#13. If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.

Frederick Lenz

#14. I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.

Bo Schembechler

#15. When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

Luke Evans

#16. You get no writing done at all if you sit at a table with a view. You'd spent the whole time watching the birds or thinking about what you would like to be doing out of doors, instead of flogging yourself to work out of sheer boredom.

Mary Stewart

#17. I love writing, and I love postproduction. That's great, because you start to reassemble the film, and you sit there, and you start to really put the film together, finally. The shooting of it is the most stressful part of the process.

Peter Jackson

#18. Although I get a lot of specialty services like wraps, scrubs, and
mustache removal, my favorite is the simple manicure/pedicure. They work on your hands and feet at the same time while you sit in a vibrating chair. I call it the sorority girls version of a threesome.

Jen Lancaster

#19. Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

#20. At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and sorrier ass) back on the street, but they can't card you when you sit down to paint a picture, write a poem, or tell a story.

Stephen King

#21. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

Joyce Rachelle

#22. And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor
as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!

Hope Mirrlees

#23. What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

Marion Woodman

#24. I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

Flannery O'Connor

#25. A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#26. If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative.
If you release yourself from these, meditation is just natural. When you sit for meditation, what is your basic problem? You are either thinking about tomorrow or thinking about what happened yesterday

Sadhguru

#27. People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy.

Helen Fisher

#28. It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

B.B. King

#29. But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

Julia Alvarez

#30. It is not how you dress, where you sit or how you speak that makes you professional?. It is how you say things, what you achieve, how you do things That makes you a true professional?.

Sameh Elsayed

#31. If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.

Ken Robinson

#32. When I meet certain filmmakers, sometimes you sit down and you do have some kind of shorthand. It can be fun to see them as someone who has been through similar experiences, but also as someone who just loves film. You can talk with them about films in a way that feels really free.

Noah Baumbach

#33. As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

Donald Trump

#34. Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Christine Feehan

#35. When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

#36. You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Rumi

#37. When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

Ani DiFranco

#38. You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don't. They never can. There is no perfect. There's just different. But different can be wonderful.

Sarah Jio

#39. We went to see Lenny Kravitz last summer in Austin and he was awesome. His show was just awesome. I mean, like, when you see some of these great bands, you sit there and think, man, if only we were that tight, you know?

Isaac Hanson

#40. I was pretty socially awkward as a kid, which is a common thread among animators. You have this need to connect to the rest of the world, but as soon as you do you feel totally awkward and abnormal. And so to relate to the world, you sit and draw.

Pete Doctor

#41. Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.

Michel Ocelot

#42. Winning cannot become your habit unless defeats have torn you apart
and you sit in the battle field
stitching back yourself
one piece at a time
laughing in the faces of all defeats.

Chetan M. Kumbhar

#43. You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

Stanley Kubrick

#44. There's no agony like [getting started]. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off.

Agatha Christie

#45. The beauty about being a producer is you sit there, and you explore ideas which become a passion, which slowly becomes a reality.

Michelle Yeoh

#46. In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

Ben Horowitz

#47. Your palms break sweat and you sit there, needy, while your work ethic and character are available for comment from strangers you wouldn't share a joint with at a blues festival.

Daniel Woodrell

#48. When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

Trey Parker

#49. You're playing competitive, and it's always better to play four competitive rounds than it is two because you sit there for a weekend and then you start all over again.

John Daly

#50. Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat.

John Robbins

#51. I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur Balfour

#52. I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.

Rob Gronkowski

#53. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#54. Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.

Gautam Adani

#55. With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

Mariel Zagunis

#56. You better play together as a team or you sit.

John Wooden

#57. Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

Mae West

#58. You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.

Mary Shelley

#59. If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

J.R.R. Tolkien

#60. My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

Phil Daniels

#61. I think hawking is the nearest thing to flying in this world. There you sit high up and poised light as air, the horse swift beneath you. You unhood your bird, let the jesses go and watch your falcon, its bells a-jingle, like some wild spirit take the air ... and your own spirit goes with it.

Hilda Lewis

#62. Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

Terence McKenna

#63. if you sit around thinking about all the bad crap then the world is sure as hell gonna pass you right on by.

Jessica Roe

#64. There are ultimate truths you cannot hide from no matter how high you climb or how long you sit alone. Everything is on its way somewhere, even if that place feels like nowhere.

LeighLa Graham

#65. Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Mark Twain

#66. The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down the garbage drain-this civilization was founded on God's road map.

Peter Kreeft

#67. How can you sit next to this filthy gay?' he asked me.
'It's called gravity,' I said. 'Look it up, when you have an afternoon to spare.

Gregory David Roberts

#68. When you sit, everything sits with you.

Shunryu Suzuki

#69. I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'

David Stern

#70. Inspiration is not something that you sit passively and hope for. Inspiration is a lifestyle that must be practised continuously and is never completely mastered.

Mensah Oteh

#71. You sit and you read that, and you have to imagine turning it into a film that people are going to sit and watch. And you have an awful lot of input from a lot of other people. That's the way I work.

Wolfgang Petersen

#72. For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's - you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.

Pat Gillick

#73. I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.

Dana Hill

#74. That's my way in the very beginning - how to enter it [a role]. Very quickly in the process, I don't think about voice being separate from the way you hold your head or the way you sit or the way you put on lipstick. It's all a piece of a person, and it's all driven by conviction.

Meryl Streep

#75. Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of numbers instead of actually working.

Dave Barry

#76. No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.

Cassandra Clare

#77. When you sit down around the table, it's a great time to catch up and share and talk about the day, and I think that can keep families connected and together.

Kimberly Schlapman

#78. If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

Thabo Mbeki

#79. As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras, the past-life tendencies. It washes away the karmic tendencies from this life.

Frederick Lenz

#80. It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

Alisa Valdes

#81. Having been in front of the camera just a couple of times, I'm empathetic, because it's very disconcerting. Someone shuffles you off to the trailer; you sit there for eleven hours wondering what the hell's going on.

Kurt Voss

#82. Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

Peter Weller

#83. In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.

Henry Miller

#84. It is true that he has no eyes or limbs and you are fortunate to have all of them,' agreed Nasrudin, 'and yet you won't earn half as much if you sit beside him and beg.

Sam Elcot

#85. Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the
old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops
into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do
when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-
I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

James N. Frey

#86. I've fallen in love with you. I love you even now when you sit before me with the eyes of a wolf. So take pity upon the fool I have become. I forgot it was only a bargain between us.

Ronda Thompson

#87. When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.

Iris Apfel

#88. As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Theo Van Gogh

#89. Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter - you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Desmond Tutu

#90. Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good ... and there are gooseberries.

Anton Chekhov

#91. Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

William Kittredge

#92. Mother Mary," he breathes. "How you shine."
I shake my head. "The light is yours. Right now you can't see it because you sit in shadow, but all I do is reflect you.

Ann Aguirre

#93. Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?

Ward Churchill

#94. He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.

Salman Rushdie

#95. When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

Anthony Hemingway

#96. I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Holly Black

#97. I miss you every time that we say goodbye, even though I know I will see you the next day. I miss you when you are across the room, and I can see you. I miss you when you sit beside me and I cannot touch you.

Linda Wells

#98. Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in quiet, glad surrender to Him who is within. In secret ejaculations of praise, turn in humble wonder to the Light, faint though it may be.

Thomas Raymond Kelly

#99. The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

Jonathan Lethem

#100. This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

Neil Gaiman