Michael Ian Black Quotes

I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.

Michael Ian Black

• Effort
• Accepting
• Compliment
• Insulted
• Introverted

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• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Person

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Attention

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Good
  • Effort
  • Common Sense

• If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

  

  Walt Disney
  • May
  • Energy
  • Effort

• The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • People
  • Effort
  • Vision

• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • People
  • Church
  • Effort

• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Evil
  • Effort

• I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • Time
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

  

  Billy Strayhorn
  • Writing
  • Friend
  • Effort

• The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Effort

• When we push against who we naturally are, we feel stress, things don't progress easily, we beat ourselves up for getting crappy results, and everything is an effort.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Up
  • Effort
  • Progress

• In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

  

  James Allen
  • Effort

• The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Great
  • Space
  • Universe

• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

  

  John Mellencamp
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Enemy

• I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Love
  • Career

• I'm very introverted, so it requires a huge effort for me to put on a smile and extend a hand and accept compliments. I would much rather be insulted than complimented any day.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Effort
  • Accepting
  • Compliment