B.J. Novak Quotes

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I always try to show my human side to my colleagues and to the whole circuit. More than anything because we are all on the same train, it is part of our work.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

It has been the best thing that has ever happened in my life.

'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other "comedies" that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.

There's not many good comedies to watch - you know, comedies that make you glad you watched them.

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

I do not have very much office experience.

Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.

Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Pressure is part of what we do. It's always present.

All children have rights and those rights must be protected.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I am fast and very powerful on the court, so this is what matters.

Tennis is my life, obviously; I need to focus, I need to win. But it's not the only thing. I'm not going to play forever.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

I had to know at least two languages.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

I lost to a better player who played some courageous tennis and deserved to win.

I got married, going to become father soon, being No. 1 in the sport that I love with all my heart. I mean, it's pretty awesome.

I'm very fortunate to have the support of the people around me, I feel happy because my wife helps me and people who are close.

My father never talked about the sacrifices that the family made for me.

Obsession is a negative word, I do not think that obsession can bring positive things. Not only in tennis but, I mean in any situation of life.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

As a kid I was creative.

I like my groundstrokes, I can say. I like it. That's my game - I'm a groundstroke player and I play pretty aggressive.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

No, I have something else between my legs.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

My strokes just weren't there.

I had a nice childhood. War and all the experiences affected me as a person and helped me to grow, to change.

I think if you do not enjoy your time, your life, if you do not live intensely and do not spend time with your family, in one way or another it will be reflected in your career.

Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.

I never wanted to change countries; it's something that is part of me.

When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.

I cannot guarantee anything.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.