When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say. " "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise. " "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another. " In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.
It’s not really the love that I envy, it’s the trust. The feeling that no matter how bad you screw up, there is always someone who will accept you and love you for who you are; not because they have to, just because they can’t not love you.
Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with. . . just to screw with my subconscious.
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying.
In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you're dead. So accuracy really matters.
My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.
Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.
Many intelligent people, when about to write. . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.
Type should be beautiful — Screw readable!
Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.
I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little
I'm finding that everything sells. I've been toying with the fact that I have this big giant glass jar with the metal screw lid on it that's full of ribbons and memorabilia from conventions and stuff. I've got buttons and I have all of my Walt Disney Mickey Mouse credit cards. I'm wondering in my old age if anyone would pay for a credit card with Mickey Mouse on it issued to me. I wonder if anyone would pay anything for that?
Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.
You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that.
Where I come from, family’s defined as those who don’t screw you over a pay check. Blood makes no difference. If you can trust them with your life and know that they’ll be there come whatever hell rains down, then they’re your family.
Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.
Can we screw the 'sorry' part and let me hit you back instead?" Vishous to Butch
Why don't we get drunk and screw?