Monday famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
-- Aaron Kampman -
I fight, knock them out, have some sex and Monday I'm back to hitting bags and kicking ass.
-- Adrien Broner -
Those three words, Monday Night Football, resonate like no other.
-- Al Michaels -
Early on in my life I comprehended that death is the most tragic event in our life. Events of early Monday July 14, 1958 [Coup in Iraq] had convinced me that hate is the most destructive force in our life.
-- Ala Bashir -
Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.
-- Alan Cohen -
A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
-- Alan Jay Lerner -
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
-- Alan Watts -
I understand the intensity of the supporters. I wonder how they could turn up for work on Monday morning after we lost 5-1 to Manchester City.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Hide your kids, hide your wife, don't change the channel, this is monday night raw and The Miz is the WWE champion.
-- Alex Riley -
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.
-- Allen West -
Interlude with sunshine. Hello monday mein lazy freund.
-- Allison Mackie -
There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
-- Andrea Jung -
The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.
-- Andy Stanley -
The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.
-- Anita Brookner -
I'm going to go out Monday through Friday and work hard and try to help this team win, because God knows we need a win.
-- Anquan Boldin -
There isn't a Monday that would not cede its place to Tuesday.
-- Anton Chekhov -
On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what?
-- Archibald Alexander Hodge -
People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
-- Art Donovan -
Monday is great if I can spend it in bed. I'm a man of simple pleasures, really.
-- Arthur Darvill -
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.
-- Bill Burr -
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
-- Bill Gates -
If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.
-- Bill Hicks -
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
-- Bill Phillips -
I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.
-- Bjorn Borg -
Possible things aren't worth much, it's those crazy impossible things that keep us passionate and alive.
-- Bob Beaudine -
You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.
-- Bob Ross -
Most of the time, I'm here in Michigan and I'm taking out the garbage every Monday.
-- Bob Seger -
I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.
-- Bobby Bowden -
But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.
-- Brenna Yovanoff -
When it comes to sticking to your resolutions, research has shown that 'action-oriented' resolutions have a better chance of being upheld than 'idea-oriented.' For example, a resolution to lose weight is really only an idea with nothing actionable to do. However, sticking with that goal in mind, you could make the resolution action-oriented by saying 'get up 30 minutes earlier every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and do a 20-minute workout at home before work.' Now you have an actionable path on how to achieve your goal.
-- Brett Hoebel -
I hate Mondays - I hate that feeling you've got to get yourself up.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
-- C. S. Lewis -
The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
-- C. S. Lewis -
This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
-- Calvin Trillin -
People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday.
-- Casey Stoner -
Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.
-- Chandra Wilson -
I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.
-- Charles E. McKenzie -
I think most kids have a sense that it's not supposed to be this way. You're not supposed to hate Monday, or be happy when you don't have to go to school. School should be something that you love. Life should be something that you love.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.
-- Charles Schumer -
I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run... let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?
-- Charlie Day -
Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni -
The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.
-- Chris Pine -
I like to do 'Garfield Mondays': lasagna and napping in a box.
-- Chris Pratt -
On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
-- Christiaan Barnard -
If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message.
-- Christiane Northrup -
I got a tiny part in a play, auditioned for another one and got that as well. Not only that, the first finished on the Saturday and the other started on the Monday which is like an actor's dream!
-- Christopher Eccleston -
Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.
-- Clifton Anderson -
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
-- Confucius -
I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.
-- Curtis Stone -
When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot.
-- Dalai Lama -
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
-- Dan Millman -
I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring or the email to pop up in our inbox. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen-if they happen at all-when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready.
-- Dani Shapiro -
To be honest, when I'm home, every day is a Friday for me. It doesn't really matter what day it is for me. A lot of my friends actually have time off during the week, and so it doesn't prohibit me from enjoying myself when I am home on a Monday or a Tuesday.
-- Danica Patrick -
The Times' new credibility committee report that was issued on Monday very specifically said they will be putting in a policy that reporters must get permission from their department heads to appear on television, which I think is a really good thing.
-- Daniel Okrent -
When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.
-- David Cottrell -
Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.
-- David Cottrell -
One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.
-- David Cottrell -
If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.
-- David Cottrell -
One of the major sources of stress, anxiety, and unhappiness comes from feeling as if your life is out of control.
-- David Cottrell -
If you want to make better use of your time, you need to be looking for the small increments of time ... a minute here, five minutes there, etc.
-- David Cottrell -
There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things.
-- David Cottrell -
If each Monday morning, you make a choice to move into the new work week with renewed commitment and passion, you can change all areas of your life. You can truly change your Mondays and change your life.
-- David Cottrell -
Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.
-- David Cottrell -
For you to be successful and provide your employees with the necessary tools for success, you and your boss must work together - no matter what.
-- David Cottrell -
People quit people before they quit companies.
-- David Cottrell -
When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
-- David Cottrell -
There is no 'grand conspiracy' preventing your from accomplishing what you need to do.
-- David Cottrell -
You will never have enough time to do everything you need to do, so what you need is a crystal clear understanding of the important things you have to do.
-- David Cottrell -
You are the chief bucket filler, and the best way to fill buckets is with excellent communication.
-- David Cottrell -
So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
-- David Cottrell -
Don't stifle your career by limiting you knowledge.
-- David Cottrell -
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
-- David Cottrell -
Give away everything you have learned. If for no other reason, do it selfishly; in order to get more, you must give more.
-- David Cottrell -
To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.
-- David Cottrell -
Every successful person has faced, attacked, and conquered adversity somewhere along the way.
-- David Cottrell -
If you want to be around people who are positive and enthusiastic and eager to live life, your attitude has to be the same.
-- David Cottrell -
Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.
-- David Cottrell -
Bucket filling is in the eye of the bucket holder, not the bucket filler. Fill their buckets with things that are important to them ... not you.
-- David Cottrell -
Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.
-- David Cottrell -
When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.
-- David Cottrell -
I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.
-- David Cottrell -
It is rare for people to say they want to be held accountable, but in reality, everyone wants everyone else to be held accountable.
-- David Cottrell -
The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
-- David Cottrell -
The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.
-- David Cottrell -
You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.
-- David Cottrell -
Doing the right thing isn't always easy - in fact, sometimes it's real hard - but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.
-- David Cottrell -
The truth is that problems won't just go away.
-- David Cottrell -
Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.
-- David Cottrell -
A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.
-- David Cottrell -
Even though your responsibilities increase when you become a manager, you lose some of the rights or freedoms you may have enjoyed in the past.
-- David Cottrell
