Fall Back Quotes - Page 6

• I have a lot of confidence in myself, a lot of confidence in the race team, our equipment, and as my mind plays its games on me, I just fall back on the team.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Team, Fall, Race

  Jimmie Johnson during Phoenix II Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. November 12, 2006.

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• When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by all means, in times of doubt and indecision, cultivate gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Fall, Mean

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.69, e-artnow

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• Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Business, Fall, Character

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• When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

  Takuan Soho

  Moving, Fall, Practice

  Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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• I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.

  Drew Waters

  Fall, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Fall, Path, Higher

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• I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

  Ishmael Reed

  Fall, Race, Ideas

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

  Doug Liman

  Fall, Opportunity, Dvds

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

  Bob Altemeyer

  Fall, Believe, Ignorance

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• You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

  Winston Churchill

  Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.

  Brian Tracy

  Fall, Thinking, Quality

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• You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall

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• We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

  Dave Eggers

  Fall, Ambition, Luxury

  "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on.

  Rupert Grint

  Fall, Ice Cream, Trying

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• Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough to need no grace, goodness enough to need no progress, humility enough to need no repentance, devotion enough to need no quickening, strength sufficient without Your spirit; lest, standing still, I fall back for evermore.

  Eric Milner-White

  Fall, Teaching, Humility

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• In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Statistics

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• In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin-except yourself.

  William Lane Craig

  Jesus, Fall, Order

  William Lane Craig during Debate with Ray Bradley at Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.

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• The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Punishment, Rocks

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.119, Vintage

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• I actually quit music and I thought maybe I chose the wrong career. But, I isolated myself in a cabin in the woods for a while and that's where I fell back in love with music. Just being isolated out there, eliminating all these opinions that I endured during my time in LA and the music industry, all the rejection, it was really hard on me and my creativity. So by isolating myself in the wilderness, I was able to fall back in love with music. It was always ingrained in me, always in my blood, but I just lost it for a minute.

  Skylar Grey

  Fall, Creativity, Rejection

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• I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

  Sandra Bullock

  Fall, Thinking, Done

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• Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Mother, Fall, Night

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.

  Kevin Maney

  Fall, Thinking, Careers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

  Kate Thornton

  Lonely, Fall, Insecure

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Iraq today does have a chance to shape its own future. They may not do that, or this generation may not do that. But maybe the next one will, I don't know. They may try and fail, and stumble, get up and fall back.

  Thomas Friedman

  Fall, Iraq, Trying

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• We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

  Paul Saffo

  Fall, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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