Pick Quotes

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. (Mark Twain)
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. View quote
Winston Churchill
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. View quote
Oscar Wilde
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. View quote
Warren Buffett
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. View quote
Mae West
I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming. View quote
Courtney Love
One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable. View quote
Richard Bach
If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. View quote
Johnny Depp
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. View quote
Craig Raine
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back. (William O. Douglas)
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. View quote
Iris Murdoch
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. View quote
Muhammad Ali
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. View quote
John Muir
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. View quote
Karl Kraus
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. View quote
Robin Williams
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do. View quote
Cory Doctorow
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else. (Indra Nooyi)
You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. View quote
Evelyn Underhill
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford