"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.
Stephen Hawking

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.
Chris Rock

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
Woody Allen

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
Lauren Bacall

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Soren Kierkegaard

That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
R. Lee Ermey

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
R. Lee Ermey

It's not the having, it's the getting.
Charles Spurgeon

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
Chuck Norris

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
Bette Davis