Picking Quotes

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I don't think there is a perfect athlete. But if I had to come close to picking someone who demonstrates all the traits that I feel an athlete should have, I would say the perfect athlete would be Tiger Woods. He has the ability, he's humble and he's very good at what he does.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon.

My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

If they did it like they did it in '96 or whenever, just picking it from one meet, what if someone had the meet of their life but they're not usually a good competitor? That could be really bad for the team. So, I think this is the best way.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good example. And in long-term political strategic forecasting, it's been shown that experts are just not better than a dice-throwing monkey.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

I've always been that way. I'm not very good at reading music but I'm pretty quick at picking things up.

My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.

I have nothing but sympathy for the people who are forced to work with me. I'm better now at picking out those that want to play that game with me, and those that don't.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.