When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.
The telling of your stories is a revolutionary act.
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.
My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing. . . it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, Oh, God, this is not right. When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.
The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.
I was a pitcher, and my dad played in college. The hardest day of my life was telling him I was going to quit to focus more on golf. But with golf, I felt like the game can't be perfected, and that motivated me.
When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.
It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.
Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.
I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself. '
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.
The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don't.
