Friday Focus Quotes & Sayings

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing. — Guy Kawasaki

It's OK to have beliefs, just don't believe in them. — Guy Ritchie

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind. — Bob Dylan

It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns are "types," abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists. — Kenny Smith

The number-one show in America on Sundays will be Celebrity Apprentice. Monday nights, The Voice will be number one. Wednesday nights, Survivor will be number one. And Friday nights, Shark Tank will be number one. It just takes some time management for me to focus. — Scott Raab

He said, McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity for the poor man. — Barbara W. Tuchman

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling. — Will Hobbs

Happy Friday Night Fam! Time to free yourself from worries and stresses and focus on all of your blessings!! Spread LOVE & BE HAPPY this weekend! — Tracey Edmonds

Soul, wilt thou toss again?
By just such a hazard
Hundreds have lost, indeed,
But tens have won all.
Angels' breathless ballot
Lingers to record thee;
Imps in eager caucus
Raffle for my soul. — Emily Dickinson

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home. — Patton Oswalt

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people. — Henry Mintzberg

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either. — Edmund Burke

If you spend enough time with yourself in silence, you'll be surprised what goes through your head. — Sandra Bullock

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within. — Winston Churchill

TV kind of worked out naturally for me. I was fortunate to do a show like 'Breaking Bad' and then go straight into something like 'Friday Night Lights.' It's not something I focus on, but when they're great projects, I can't pass them up. — Emily Rios

We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love. — Nancy Wilson

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites. — Jerry Spinelli

Why is it I can spend a dozen Friday nights staring at the peeling walls of my "room" without anyone in the family so much as poking a head down to see if I'm alive, while the one time I actually have plans (major plans, plans that necessitate extraordinary focus and massive preparation), my stepmother suddenly suggests we sing a duet of "Getting to Know You"? — Melissa Kantor

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes

From the look of us, you'd never know we slept in the same bed last night and made out like the world was going to end if we stopped. — Simone Elkeles