Standing Out Quotes - Page 16

• You have to surrender to the fact that you are of too many in a highly competitive field where it is difficult to stand out. Over time, through your work, you will demonstrate who you are and what you bring to the field. Just stay with it and keep working.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Work, Fields, Facts

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• What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Wind, Bird

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• The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there.

  J. G. Holland

  Men, Self, Independence

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.111

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• I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.

  Britney Spears

  Regret, Believe, Independent

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

  Tyler Perry

  Successful, People, Black

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 14, 2012.

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• A successful business must have a sound knowledge of its market and work on how its product or service will be different, stand out and improve people's lives. If you can ensure it responds to a real need in the market place, your business can punch well above its weight.

  Richard Branson

  Real, Successful, People

  "Gentleman's Journal" Interview, www.thegentlemansjournal.com. December 10, 2012.

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• We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

  Chuck Comeau

  Song, Track, Different

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• There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

  Roger Deakins

  Cutting, Thinking, Together

  "Famed Cinematographer Roger Deakins Talks Coens, Storytelling, ‘Prisoners’". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. January 13, 2014.

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• I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in all the countries of the world, who, in the oscillation of national egoisms let loose, stand up and stand out, steadfast as the glorious statues of Right and Duty.

  Henri Barbusse

  Country, Believe, Men

  Henri Barbusse (1919). “Light”

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• Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Morality, He Man

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• I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

  Jim Carrey

  Crowds, Scripts, Comedy

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Merit, Distinction

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• He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.

  Kenny Chesney

  Years, Voice, Doe

  "George Jones called 'greatest country singer of all time'". www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2013.

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• When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

  William Howard Taft

  Country, Men, Political

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• I don't mean to harp on this, but it's like the networks are a how-to manual for terrorists. You see them on the news. This reporter is standing outside a water treatment plant, going, 'If they poured the poison here it could wipe out thousands because the guard is off duty from noon until 1 every day!'

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Water, Noon

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• A person who can look inside into his soul sees then with his vision one and all standing outside around in support to him that they are only as truthful and trustworthy to him as he to all others.

  Anuj

  Support, Soul, Vision

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• Nature's law says that the strong must prevent the weak from living, but only in a newspaper article or textbook can this be packaged into a comprehensible thought. In the soup of everyday life, in the mixture of minutia from which human relations are woven, it is not a law. It is a logical incongruity when both strong and weak fall victim to their mutual relations, unconsciously subservient to some unknown guiding power that stands outside of life, irrelevant to man.

  Anton Chekhov

  Nature, Strong, Fall

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Sacrifice, Roots, Grace

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1853). “Parochial sermons”, p.160

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• If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.

  David Lynch

  Thumbs, Honest, Scene

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Thinking, Magic, Kind

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

  Sean William Scott

  Common Sense, Looks, Earth

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• Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

  Ayrton Senna

  Blood, Racing, Formula 1

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• It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

  Michael Chabon

  Spring, Nice, Heart

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Stupid, Book

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• Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Grace, Ears

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