#getting

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#directing #getting #good #just #movie

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#back #clock #easy #getting #go

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what. ↗

— Nancy Kerrigan

#because #closer #difficult #doing #family

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me. ↗

— Chaka Khan

#being #degree #getting #like #me

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#feature #get #getting #i #independent

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#body #cards #dealt #ferociously #first

When you know someone you can make a little more fun of them without them getting offended. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#getting #know #little #make #more

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last! ↗

— Billie Jean King

#athletes #dates #easily #getting #just

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it. ↗

— Peter King

#capable #doing #done #endless #far