Michael Scott Quotes

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Michael Scott

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Women
  • Government
  • Politics

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Son

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Singing

• A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Meet

• I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Box

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • God
  • Faith
  • Support

• The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• For some mysterious Darwinian reason, women feel compelled to straighten up bedrooms before and after sex. Try to make love in every other room of the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Different
  • Game
  • Past

• The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Rocky

• What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Work
  • Strong

• Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is alright, as long your values don't change.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Long

• When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're from, what kind of personality you've got...everyone loves music of some sort; that's what's so epic about it.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Strange
  • Possibility

• John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be inspired.

  

  Kasey Keller
  • Perfect
  • Helping
  • Lasts

• WWE has given me an out where, any days off that I have, they allow me to work on outside projects.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Work

• They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

  

  Michael Scott
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Loses