Down And Quotes

Some of us aren't meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make our own place in it.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

I learned how to play the drums. When we were in pre-production, when we were still in LA, I had a couple of drum lessons and then some in Toronto. I got the one beat down and that was it.

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come.

Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.

Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.

God didn't come down and tell me; I had to find it out through many years of experience. The work came first; the inspiration came later.

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

I never back down and I never quit!

Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems. YOU are the angel that can fix your problems.

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don't be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.