Up To You Quotes - Page 8

• If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Hate, Cities

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• The best feeling in the world is when your child comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because. I can't wait to have more.

  Marlee Matlin

  Children, Waiting, Feelings

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• I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.

  Steve Lacy

  Years, Imagination, Limits

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• I think as you mature as an actor things open up to you in a lot of ways, especially if you do work on yourself.

  John Leguizamo

  Thinking, Actors, Way

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• Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Class, Rich, Poor

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• I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you.

  Sandra Bullock

  I've Learned, Accepting, Packages

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

  Michael Scott

  Book, Writing, Inspire

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• In business everyone is out to grab, to fight, to win. Either you are the under or the over dog. It is up to you to be on top.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Dog, Fighting, Winning

  "The Autobiography of a Business Woman". Book by Alice Foote MacDougall, Chapter 3, 1928.

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• It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups come up to you, that's really not exciting. Why would a grown man be excited for meeting another grown man?

  Clinton Portis

  Kids, Men, Looks

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• My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

  Beth Ditto

  Work Out, Goal, Taught

  "Ask me anything!" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

  Bill Cosby

  Worry, Parent, Acting

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• The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Respect, Noise, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Courage, Long

  "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" by Nathaniel Botwinick, www.nationalreview.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Your children's genes reflect only their potential, not their destiny. It is up to you to provide the environment that allows them to develop to their highest potential.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Children, Destiny, Environment

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.226, Hay House, Inc

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• You have success within. It's up to you to bring it out.

  John Wooden

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• The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

  Jack Canfield

  Winning, Your Side, People

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• As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books don't get written by thinking about them, they get written by writing them. And that's when you make discoveries about what you're writing. That's when you get the happy accidents.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• To young men who are looking for an opportunity and who complain there is no opening for them, permit me to say this: 'Go where the poor and the under-privileged are. They will be glad to hear you. When you have learned to bless them, others will be calling for your services. Don't wait for opportunity to come walking up to you. Go to meet it.'

  James Gordon Lindsay

  Opportunity, Men, Waiting

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• I never tell the audience what to think of me. When I talk, how you consume it is up to you.

  Colin Cowherd

  Thinking, Think Of Me, Audience

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  Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  Coco Chanel

  Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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• A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Want, Walks, Finished

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.

  Cole Hamels

  People, Looks, Use

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• I have a lot of friends, in and out of golf, and there is a mutual trust. I'm very serious at the course. Maybe if I joked around more around the press tent, your image of me would be different. But that's not me. And the golf course is my office. If I come up to you when you're writing a story, are you going to drop everything to talk? Or are you going to say you're too busy doing your job?

  Vijay Singh

  Jobs, Writing, Golf

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• It's almost embarrassing to be out in public and someone comes up to you and says, 'My mother had the same thing you did.' What do you say? I don't know what to say to make them feel better about their situation.

  Jon Lester

  Mother, Feel Better, Embarrassing

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• Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Self, Choices, Pity

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

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