Quotes about amount
amount destroy money reduce
Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face. William Colby
amount both certain inherent optimists
As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy. Virginia Postrel
amount certain david filmmakers freedom hollywood soderbergh steven typical work
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. Vincent Cassel
amount certain less pressure rather talk
I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook. Vikram Seth
amount certain courage decades few hard problems science tackle takes work
It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.
amount comply historical obviously playing public record
If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to. Colm Meaney
amount funny named none
It's funny, having the same name as someone. Me, Emma Watson and Emma Stone, the amount of times I've been called Emma Watson or Emma Stone is so funny. It's just 'cause we're all named Emma. None of us look alike. Emma Roberts
amount felt good great needed persistent rejections takes wrong
Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened. Elizabeth Wurtzel
amount chemicals fewer overall toxic trend
The overall trend is downward. There are fewer toxic chemicals going into the environment, but we want to see that amount go down even more.
amount certain mostly time twitter type
I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to regiment the amount of time I spend doing certain things or I'll just wade in it, and then I'll never come out. Bill Hader
amount certain deal lives restrict smaller trying
We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we restrict our mental lives to smaller and smaller areas. Deborah Eisenberg
amount capital constantly figure limited means paying terms
The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital and you've got to figure where it's going. And if your currency is weakening, that means you're paying a load. David Malpass
amount certain dwell energy negative whoever wrong
We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes. Victoria Osteen
amount films makers
If African film makers had one-tenth the amount commanded by film makers the world over - even the amount used by so-called shoestring film makers - I think we would see quite an explosion of African films on the world scene. Wole Soyinka
amount days deepest feet god hours literally meditating reading sat scripture sorrow spent time
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God. Rick Warren
amount both less time whatever
Just because you live 20 years or 100 years doesn't make it less meaningful. They're both short amount of times. So all we can do is just live in that time, whatever time we're given. Ansel Elgort
amount regard
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
amount certain effort good keeps life takes
I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going. Anthony Hopkins
amount inordinate market power spends success
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
amount capacity lost
We have lost a significant amount of capacity out of the Gulf.
amount certain god
God has blessed me with a certain amount of presence and a certain amount of charisma. Ving Rhames
amount tremendous trying
A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely. Ira Glass
amount became bob cross david deserves enormous hbo jay lesser respect sketch trying
Most sketch aficionados have an enormous amount of respect for 'Mr. Show.' I didn't have HBO back then, so I was always trying to find episodes. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross became celebrities, and Jay Johnston - who's lesser known, but brilliant - deserves a lot of credit, too. Nick Swardson
amount aware extremely french-athlete level success
I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult. Laurent Jalabert
amount lower middle order quite runs
We didn't quite get the amount of runs middle to lower order that we would liked, Marcus Trescothick
amount conscious effort energy lose playing point second
We didn't play with the same amount of energy in the second half, and they made a conscious effort to go inside. When we lose leads, you can always point to us not playing with enough intensity.
amount bicycle building experiment history knowing late mankind night nobody sitting tremendous work worth
There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But sitting there late at night in the lab, and knowing light is going at bicycle speed, and that nobody in the history of mankind has ever been here before - that is mind-boggling. It's worth everything.
amount certain feelings men painful realised terms time took women worried
When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened, and there was a certain amount of 'Who am I? Am I a criminal?' and so on. It took me a long time to come to terms with myself. Those were painful years - painful then and painful to look back on.
amount attitude certain failure motto risk slightest succeed taking tends worth
My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
amount couple enormous human knowledge love motivates pick
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more. Nathaniel Branden
amount books certain life lived man men rate seen understand until
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound
amount competent convince devote employer found good hardly slowly studying time work workman
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
amount bunch discourse funny guess museum painting people
The small amount of people that control the discourse around painting - I thought that the whole museum world was just a bunch of phonies, and I didn't really want to have anything to do with it. I guess I did installations, in a funny way, because they couldn't be commodified. Fred Tomaselli