Come Up Quotes - Page 16

• When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.

  Michael Scott

  Kings, Guy, Drug

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• That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

  Tom Kelley

  Ideas, Creative, Trying

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.20, Crown Business

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• It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

  Tim Tharp

  Morning, Sleep, People

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• A lot of individuals are so worried about being politically correct. I'd rather go ahead and say what's on my mind than to sit there and come up with some PC 'Oh, the guy is a great fighter and I have a lot of respect for him.' If I don't mean it, why is it even coming out of my mouth? ... I want to fight Lesnar. I hate who he is as a person. I want to break his neck in the ring. I want him to be the first person that dies due to Octagon-related injuries. That's what's going through my mind.

  Frank Mir

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Book, Thinking, Way

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• I never thought innovation as such was very important. Not when you have to think about it... If you're going to come up with a new direction or a really new way to do something, you'll do it by just playing your stuff and letting it ride. The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

  Count Basie

  Real, Thinking, Innovation

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• Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Healing, Order

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Feb 17, 2013

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• Be crumbled.
  So wild flowers will come up where you are.
  You have been stony for too many years.
  Try something different.
  Surrender.

  Rumi

  Flower, Years, Trying

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• The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

  Arthur Koestler

  Giving, Intuition, Links

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

  David Blunkett

  Mean, People, Cards

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• In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with food, medicine, supplies, housing, education - anything that's needed. Isn't that amazing? He finally comes up with a domestic agenda - and it's for Iraq. Maybe we could bring that here if it works out.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Medicine, People

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

  Asghar Farhadi

  Morality, Individual, Source

  "Asghar Farhadi, Golden Globe Winner For ‘A Separation,’ Talks Getting Past The Censors In Iran". Interview With Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2012.

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• You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Vision, President

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• The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.

  Lawrence Halprin

  Memorial, Feelings, Different

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• A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the "Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act," was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby's shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend - but is it really necessary to put the word "killing" in the title of a major piece of legislation?

  Chellie Pingree

  Jobs, Stupid, Weekend

  "For Gabby’s Sake, Republicans Should Change the Name of Their Health Care Repeal Bill" by Chellie Pingree, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 09, 2011.

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• If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

  Judy Sheindlin

  Equality, Work Relationships, Justice

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• My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

  Laurie Anderson

  Fashion, Car, Trying

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• Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Firsts, Wasting Time

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• If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

  Bill Belichick

  Past, Feel Good, Feelings

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• Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

  Frank Luntz

  Communication, Thinking, Tanks

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• People come up with resolutions that don’t reflect what matters most to them, and that makes them almost guaranteed to fail.

  Kelly McGonigal

  What Matters, People, Failing

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• I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Trying, Together

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• I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four school teacher, sparse bun, rancid teeth, wrinkly frown, pursed mouth and all, sailing around the world under cover of darkness pleased to be the bearer of ill tidings, carrying a basket of rotten eggs, and knowing- as the sun comes up- exactly where to drop them. On me, for one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  Margaret Atwood (2008). “Moral Disorder and Other Stories”, p.5, Anchor

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• One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

  Matthew Reilly

  Book, Writing, Careers

  Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Great Zoo of China”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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