Quotes about Sitting Down

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down. Votes: 4

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down. Votes: 4

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. Votes: 4

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. Votes: 4

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Votes: 4

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. Votes: 4

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck. Votes: 4

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen. Votes: 4

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates. Votes: 4

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand. Votes: 4

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Votes: 4

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down Votes: 4

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers... Votes: 4

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart. Votes: 4

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. Votes: 4

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice. Votes: 4

When I was council president I had a rule that people could sleep on the job. I modified the rule. You could actually sleep in public if you weren't sitting down. I had three people who actually perfected the art of sleeping while standing. Votes: 4

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know. Votes: 4

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long. Votes: 4

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens. Votes: 4

Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple. Votes: 4

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this important? Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set in motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose. Votes: 4

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality. Votes: 4

A boy is not a sitting-down animal. Votes: 0

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down. Votes: 0

I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods. Votes: 0

I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Votes: 0

I don't mind playing or watching a movie or sitting down. Votes: 0

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down. Votes: 0

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. Votes: 0

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. Votes: 0

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back. Votes: 0

Sitting think here 'Bout the times we shared Now I'm feeling down Votes: 0

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. Votes: 0

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. Votes: 0

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down Votes: 0

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. Votes: 0

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down. Votes: 0

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. Votes: 0

My gratitude towards fans has always been sitting itself deep down there in my heart. Votes: 0

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script. Votes: 0

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around. Votes: 0

I love sitting down and having actual conversations. But I don't do that sound-bite, be-candidly-funny thing. Votes: 0

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write. Votes: 0

I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching. Votes: 0

Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso. Votes: 0

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. Votes: 0

My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work. Votes: 0

I've been sitting down studying the Art of Love. I think it will fit me like a glove. Votes: 0

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country. Votes: 0

There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful. Votes: 0

Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.... Votes: 0

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner. Votes: 0

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix. Votes: 0

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea. Votes: 0

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. Votes: 0

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Votes: 0

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. Votes: 0

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. Votes: 0

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. Votes: 0

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food. Votes: 0

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument. Votes: 0

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. Votes: 0

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. Votes: 0

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in. Votes: 0

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. Votes: 0

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important. Votes: 0

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all. Votes: 0

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. Votes: 0

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them. Votes: 0

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer. Votes: 0

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang. Votes: 0

I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast. Votes: 0

I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down. Votes: 0

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you. Votes: 0

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating. Votes: 0

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said. Votes: 0

The whole idea of comparing climbers is ludicrous. It would be like sitting Van Gogh down with Rembrandt and saying, Ready, get set, go. Votes: 0

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony. Votes: 0

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids. Votes: 0

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep. Votes: 0

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat. Votes: 0

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today. Votes: 0

Sorry," he said, his voice thick and gruff. "It's morning and you're sitting on me. That's a combination meant to bring any man down. Votes: 0

Get a grip. You're pricklier than a feral cat," he said, sitting up."Too bad for you, I'm not in heat," I said, calming down. Votes: 0

It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. Votes: 0

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music. Votes: 0

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers. Votes: 0

I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place. Votes: 0

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Votes: 0

Kids, they are always hurting themselves. It's like, "Quick, get me to casualty quick!" while your doing something important like sitting down picking your ear. Votes: 0

Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere. Votes: 0

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny. Votes: 0

A rat called Possible New Strain was sitting under a spaghetti strainer held down with a pile of journalism textbooks, saying rude things in rat-speak. Votes: 0

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy. Votes: 0

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. Votes: 0

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No. Votes: 0

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology. Votes: 0

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. Votes: 0

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology. Votes: 0

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself. Votes: 0

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. Votes: 0

I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with. Votes: 0

As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be done sitting down. Votes: 0

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die. Votes: 0

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography. Votes: 0

It's really sad down there. Everyone's sitting around asking to help and BP won't let anybody do anything. People are coming down to help. People want to help. Votes: 0

I used to live with J.D. Souther, and I would watch him write. He's be sitting, he'd say something, and then he'd write it down. That's craft. Votes: 0

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write. Votes: 0

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation. Votes: 0

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation. Votes: 0

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did. Votes: 0

I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served. Votes: 0

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing. Votes: 0

The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires. Votes: 0

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes. Votes: 0

I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. Votes: 0

I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Votes: 0

I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. Votes: 0

Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow. Votes: 0

There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life! Votes: 0

Record stores keep the human social contact alive it brings people together. Without the independent record stores the community breaks down with everyone sitting in front of their computers Votes: 0

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. Votes: 0

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Votes: 0

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. Votes: 0

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be - an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation. Votes: 0

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. Votes: 0

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others Votes: 0

I used to walk into a party and scan the room for attractive women. Now I look for women to hold my baby so I can eat potato salad sitting down. Votes: 0

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling. Votes: 0

The piano has been my friend all my life; it has always comforted me. Writing songs and sitting down at the piano is not only a business, it's a hobby I enjoy. Votes: 0

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having paranthas and lassi and all that was marvellous. Votes: 0

Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service. Votes: 0

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form. Votes: 0

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands. Votes: 0

Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us. Votes: 0

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks. Votes: 0

I don't think anarchism consists of sitting down and saying let's form a collective. I don't think it consists of saying we're all anarchists: you're an anarcho-syndicalist; you're an anarcho-communist; you're an anarcho-individualist. Votes: 0

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?' Votes: 0

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times. Votes: 0

I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of my agent.' That makes me just die inside. Votes: 0

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl... Votes: 0

Standing is stupid, Crawling's a curse, Skipping is silly,Walking is worse.Hopping is hopeless,Jumping's a chore,Sitting is senseless, Leaning's a bore.Running's ridiculous,Jogging's insane-Guess I'll go upstairs andLie down again. Votes: 0

When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding. Votes: 0

I always say separate your abilities from your disabilities. You know, if I could play the violin, I don't have to play it standing up. I can play it sitting down and so on. Votes: 0

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. Votes: 0

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day. Votes: 0

When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else. Votes: 0

In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure. Votes: 0

Producing, for me anyway, it's coming up with material. It's sitting down with you know the likes of Martin Scorsese, Johnny Depp, Michael Mann and talking about a movie and really creating something from nothing. Votes: 0

Before you eat food or drink water, look at what you're about to eat or drink and feel love and gratitude. Make sure your conversations are positive when you are sitting down to a meal. Votes: 0

In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe. Votes: 0

Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. "I'm so happy to see you," she cried out. "Be happy sitting down," Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen. Votes: 0

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished. Votes: 0

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old. Votes: 0

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually. Votes: 0