Away Quotes

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he just blew us away.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.

My body grew hot, then cold. I tried to eat the bed sheets. My heart beat madly. Every joint in my body ached. When I took the cure they took it all away from me.

You must never throw away things that are worth good money.

I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal.

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television. I don't know what it does, it just sucks it away.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.