Best Certain Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.”

“Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.”

“There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.”

“Just because there are people who violate rules, behave illegally and so on, it does not mean that everybody is like that. On the contrary, if you watch certain judges, you observe that they honestly try to implement what they believe the Constitution says and just put it into effect.”

“Madhuri has certain gestures which are typical of her. Make-up and the right hairdo might make me look similar to her, but my performance needs to be up to the mark.”

“You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.”

“I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still be a comfort in the familiar recognition of a cycle repeating itself.”

“God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.”

“God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.”

“Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did.”

“As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.”

“When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.”

“There have been certain roles that I did in the past, with ease and enjoyed playing them too, but they were getting repetitive.”

“When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.”

“I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.”

“It's certain that there are icons at Bayern, players who have done incredible things for the club. But to push them, to earn your place, you have to show that you're at their level.”

“I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.”

“I was too trusting when I was younger, especially of certain people in the music business.”

“Statements in support of radical terror organizations have become the norm for certain left wing members of Congress.”

“I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don't want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.”

“You don't know why someone is in a certain circumstance and why they chose to be there. Sometimes it's just about having an experience and learning. I don't think you can begrudge someone that.”

“A certain degree of intellectual humility is a good thing.”

“I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.”

“If you grow up with a wrestling coach, you learn differently. If you were late, everything was about push-ups and laps around the gym. I once said, 'Am I on a wrestling team or a damn track team?' That resulted in me running for the entire practice. It gives you a certain mentality.”

“Once we were in the studio, we realized we were getting certain effects through the shooting of the dramatic scenes on video, shooting off a screen and then getting wave patterns and stuff like that.”

“The league has to be sensitive about what crosses the line and what doesn't. It's tough to determine what is a legal hit and what isn't a legal hit, and if someone was deliberately trying to hurt someone or not. A certain integrity, though, has to be maintained.”

“It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.”

“I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.”

“From what I've learned about the history of the Jewish people, their survival against all odds, and the divine protection they've received, I'm certain they will continue to prevail.”

“With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.”

“Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.”

“I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.”

“It's particularly important for a young woman to be in control of her image - to a certain extent. I mean, there's only so much you can do, because people take photos with you and then all of a sudden they pop up all over the place, they're completely out of context and you have no control over how they're used.”

“If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.”

“In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.”

“Certain celebs manage to worm their way out of the spotlight, and I won't stand for that.”

“Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.”

“Some people get a little shy, you know, and it can take a certain mood or a situation or a vibe for you to relax and come out of your shell.”

“It was an extreme time, in a certain sense... I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s.”

“Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”

“The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.”

“I keep a lighter in my back pocket all the time. I'm not a smoker, I just really like certain songs.”

“Make no mistake about it: when you're on the road Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday - on the road 300 days a year - you have to be a certain type of person.”

“All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.”

“People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.”

“We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.”

“What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.”

“My way of playing has changed, the way I view points and look for different openings, certain opportunities.”

“You can force students to learn, to a certain extent, but students aren't happy and employers aren't happy.”

“There is a certain swagger with vampires.”

“There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.”

“I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.”

“There are certain values that, in my opinion, television has lost - various moral lines. How far you go in, say, revealing what people get up to on reality TV, and also graphic violence and swearing - the taboo of various swear-words is no longer there. It's worrying.”

“I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.”

“The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.”

“There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.”

“I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the work.”

“I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.”

“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”

“On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.”

“In law, nothing is certain but the expense.”

“Lucasfilm looks out for 'Star Wars.' What are the values inherent in 'Star Wars' that we want to protect? It's fragile to a certain extent in that it's a single IP.”

“When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.”

“It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.”

“I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.”

“If I'm inspired to make a certain kind of song, I'm going to make that kind of song, no matter if it's what they know me as or think I am.”

“I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.”

“This is a grueling profession. Either you can't get work, or you can't get certain kinds of parts, or you get a part, and it kills you because it's not good enough, or you get successful and feel guilty about it.”

“If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.”

“Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.”

“Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.”

“Both 'Saturday Church' and 'Pose' are incredible because they demonstrate something essential about survival. When you get pushed hard enough by certain circumstances, your survival mechanism kicks in, and you grow into the things that you need or are missing in your life.”

“I always want to pick songs that are really crazy rangy, and sometimes those low notes aren't there. But I started taking it way more seriously after a certain point, and I started doing vocal warm-ups every day, even when I wasn't singing, sometimes twice a day.”

“Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.”

“I know there are certain powers who would rather have the champions be Eastern European because there's more money in it.”

“There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.”

“If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.”

“I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.”

“I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.”

“It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.”

“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”

“A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark.”

“The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days.”

“You can't convince people of certain things. You let them think what they want to think.”

“It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.”

“The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.”

“Every player can still grow - there is no limit to that. Even when I was 38, I improved myself in certain things, and that is what I will always do with my players to help them get the best out of themselves.”

“Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.”

“The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.”

“I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.”

“I try to be honest and open and there's vulnerability in doing that, and insecurity in posting certain things but I think it's important to show a realistic sense of life and not just the shiny things.”

“I don't know what the point of life is, but I'm certain that five gold medals is not it.”

“There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.”

“There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.”

“There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”

“I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.”

“Instead of saying we need to outlaw certain types of weapons, we need to find better ways to enforce current law.”

“Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.”

“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”

“Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.”