Come Up Quotes - Page 8

• A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

  Roald Dahl

  Ideas, New Day, Fiction

  Roald Dahl (2008). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.152, Penguin UK

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• I hate all the old pictures of me before 2010 - and they are always the first ones to come up. That's why I don't Google myself, man.

  Big Sean

  Hate, Men, Google

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• The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert - in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and again…no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Basketball, Player, Numbers

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Nice, Careers

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• Farm policy, although it's complex, can be explained. What it can't be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, D.C., videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Cheating, Car, Farming

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.248, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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• We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Running, Darkness

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

  Billy Tauzin

  Cities, New Orleans, Water

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• Trust doesn't come haphazardly. It really has to be built over time. And that trust has to happen really at times when there isn't a crisis. That's why I think having regular meetings and conversation when there's no crisis, when you can build trust and a friendship and a relationship that allows for better dialogue and far more consequential deal-making can occur when a crisis does come up.

  Tom Daschle

  Thinking, Doe, Conversation

  "Former Senate leaders: Here's how to make a deal" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

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• As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole-the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives - you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.

  Stephen Covey

  Family, Balance, Trying

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• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Experience

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• Do something that you love. Whatever you're going to do is going to be tough enough. Find something that gets you so excited that the sun can't come up early enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.

  Chris Gardner

  Inspirational, Morning, Up Early

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• It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving the old system behind is by coming up with a "system of liberation", as if such a thing could exist - but that's what we can expect from those who have never known anything other than systems and systematizing, I guess.

  Mao Zedong

  Leaving, Way, Anarchy

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• Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Flower, Knowing, Giving

  Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.105, Ardent Media

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• The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.3

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• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

  Chris LeDoux

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.

  Layne Staley

  Writing, Thinking, Thumbs Up

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• I could not wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Waiting

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• Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

  William Eggleston

  Photography, People, Answers

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• He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

  Casey Stengel

  Fall, Gold, Watches

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• I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.' Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, People

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Scripture, Fountain

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• I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

  Mickey Cohen

  Men, Castles, East

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