The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.
My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.
We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?
The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.
It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.
The problem with my balloon collection is that people always think there's a party. Settle down. It's not a party. It's just balloons.
It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness.
Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.
I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex.
Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it
I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.