#turns

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. ↗

— Emil Zatopek

#bitterness #climb #enthusiasm #floor #fulfill

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. ↗

— Matt Groening

#elf #gun #jig #little #love

It's a weird thing when you make records. You try to hear it before you make it, so you walk into the studio with this idea of what you expect to happen, and that usually changes. That usually turns into something else, and that's a good thing. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#before #changes #else #expect #good

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #into #involved #jokes #keep

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation. ↗

— Kevin Harrington

#entrepreneur #investor #more #nothing #off

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#after #being #comedy #everyone #family

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#conviction #hope #how #makes #out

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#i #left #make #me #mother

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#expanded #ideas #larger #mind #never

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#even #generally #important #important thing #in the end