"If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made."
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"There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws."
"I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over."
"A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week."
"Every time we have a thought that's not a thought of kindness towards others - then we've left the field of intention and, therefore, lost the power of the field of intention, as well. The whole idea is to connect yourself back to this field from which all things emanate, to return to your source and watch it in every thought that you have."
"Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself."
"We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can."
"It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it."
"Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress."
"Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens."
"Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement."
"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."
"You've seen my descent, now watch my rising."
"Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward."
"Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence."
"It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning."
"Be persistent and just keep going to open mics no matter what, even if just to watch and not perform. You'll find that even at your worst keep your head up because you'll still be better than other people's best."
"Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems."
"The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'"
"Either he's dead or my watch has stopped."