65 Spot Quotes On Success In Life
These spot quotes will inspire you. Spot, a small area of a surface that is different from other areas or a particular place or point.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging spot quotes, spot sayings, and spot proverbs.
Best Spot Quotes
- “And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.” ~ Jimmy Buffett
- “Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.” ~ George Santayana
- “The leopard does not change his spots.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.” ~ Derek Jeter
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“A zebra does not change its spots.” ~ Al Gore
- “There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don’t care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.” ~ George Matthew Adams
- “A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.” ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
- “What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.” ~ Dennis Quaid , Live spot quotes
- “There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.” ~ George Madison Adams
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“Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.” ~ Phyllis Diller
- “I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.” ~ Joaquin Phoenix
- “Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “I actually started, this year, doing some voiceovers. I did some radio spots, and some games.” ~ Julie Benz
- “The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn’t put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.” ~ Bob Mould
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“And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.” ~ George R. R. Martin
- “The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they’re expected to do – they always reach.” ~ Lee Iacocca
- “We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.” ~ Buzz Aldrin
- “There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.” ~ Nikolai Gogol
- “Meditation
practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on
the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your
life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are
capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of
that situation shows you the… dignity that comes from being still and
simple.” ~ Chogyam Trungpa -
“One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature” ~ Guido von List
- “Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.” ~ Stephen King
- “Everything speeds up and it’s blurry for a minute. But you’ve got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There’s always a soft spot in the defense, and it’s your job to find it.” ~ LaDainian Tomlinson , Soft spot quotes
- “The issue of redistribution of resources and wealth needs to resolved systemically, but in the meantime but there are individual spots you can occupy. There are things that you can do on a daily basis that will make a difference in moving the needle in individual lives. When we look at the mentoring of young black kids, for instance, the number-one mentor group is white women. I think after that maybe it’s black women, and then white men, and then black men. We can make all kinds of arguments about that.” ~ Michael Eric Dyson
- “Philosophy hasn’t made any progress? – If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn’t genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching? And can’t this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“You’re just trying to throw the best pitch you can and make sure you hit your spots. I don’t have to force nobody.” ~ Mariano Rivera
- “We shouldn’t forget that in the case of Georgia, a problem was done away with that bothered [Vladimir] Putin personally – that is, the security during the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014. Security not in the sense of a guaranteed absence of a terror attack, but in pursuing the aim of moving hot spots of possible conflict farther from the site of the Olympic Games, which are to be held a stone’s throw from Abkhazia – that is, in de jure Georgia.” ~ Garry Kasparov
- “I was just fooling around with the piano and Todd [Phillips] was like, ‘Hey there’s a great spot in the movie [The Hangover] where we need a little bit of a breath in the narrative. You should write a song and stick it in there.’ And I was like, ‘Well, what should the song be about?’ And he said, ‘The tiger.’ ‘Oh, okay.’ So I went off and I wrote this song. I came back and Todd and I tinkered with it a little more and then we shot it right then. It all happened in a day.” ~ Ed Helms
- “[Buckminster Fuller] was quite willing to talk. He’d talk at the drop of a hat.I learned to talk in front of people by listening to the way he did things. Because he would give lessons in how to lecture. He would say, “Never take a note, just stand up and start babbling. And then eventually you’re going to be able to make some coherent statements, and so it’s like you’re vamping. And then people will gradually start to listen to you when this spot of logic shows up in this torrent of verbiage.” ~ Paul Laffoley
- “Long John I think went off the air in about ’79 or something, so there was a hiatus. That’s why I think Art Bell thought there was a spot to be filled. He was doing exactly the same thing.” ~ Paul Laffoley
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“My dad was just the king of finding these little spots for us to stay that we should never have been staying at.” ~ Bruno Mars
- “I visited Paterson many years ago – 20 some years ago as a kind of day trip because of William Carlos Williams, because of Allen Ginsberg having lived there. And I went to the Great Falls and sat really in the exact same spot as Adam Driver does as Paterson. And I walked around the factory buildings, and I was rereading – I was reading at the time the epic length poem “Paterson” by Williams.” ~ Jim Jarmusch
- “Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.” ~ David Brooks
- “Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode ‘Nosedive’], but I didn’t realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It’s a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.” ~ Bryce Dallas Howard
- “When I was playing, my wife and kids would go on the road with me, and we would go to different lunch spots that we saw on “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”” ~ Prince Fielder
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“Direct elections on the spot to all representative organs, up to the supreme organ, are a better guarantee of the interests of the working population of our boundless country.” ~ Joseph Stalin
- “The biggest change is that time just goes by so fast when you’re on the road. It seems like it’s only been a month or so since I’ve been back and it’s already been more than half a year. I can’t complain, though. I’m in a great spot right and it’s up to me to take advantage of it while I can.” ~ Jeff Hardy
- “If you go into a bar or restaurant with a cop, the first thing he does is he’ll stand in the entrance, and he’ll look at every single face in that room because he doesn’t want to spend an hour having a drink or lunch and didn’t spot some villain they’ve been looking for, for two years.” ~ Peter James
- “If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other – high fidelity or high convenience – there’s probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America – the US Postal Service, which was high convenience. Fred Smith created a high-fidelity mail service.” ~ Kevin Maney
- “Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
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“If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.” ~ Charles Koch
- “The more people that understand and are made able to spot liberalism, and then the more people are able to associate liberalism with the problems in their lives, the political problems, the economic problems, the more people can be conditioned and educated to understand that liberalism is the problem, coupled with the ability to spot it, would be the fastest way to eradicate it. It would be really helpful if we had a Republican Party engaged in this.” ~ Rush Limbaugh
- “I think it’s really important to have a life and have interests outside of this [movie] business, and not rely on this business to validate you as a human being. If you do that, you’re really in a dangerous spot.” ~ Winona Ryder
- “One thing inspired me the most from the time I spent in Charleston was how much heritage and history are connected to influencing how I cook. Each dish tugged my heart in a different spot that after I finished cooking, I was really emotional and felt fulfilled at the same time.” ~ Shirley Chung
- “”Consent must be freely given, can be withdrawn at any time, and the absence of ‘no’ does not mean ‘yes.'” How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that “no” means “yes” if you know how to spot it?” ~ Rush Limbaugh
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“If there’s a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.” ~ Ed Gass-Donnelly
- “There are a lot of people in each spot that you don’t really know. I work with them that day, and move on and find new people. So purging and cleansing your friend list every day.” ~ Raven-Symone
- “If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something more subtle. The effect is something like a cognitive seizure, marked by changes of personality, hyper religiosity (an obsession with religion and feelings of religious certainty), hypergraphia (extensive writing on a subject, usually about religion), the false sense of an external presence, and, often, the hearing voices that are attributed to a god. Some fraction of history´s prophets, martyrs, and leaders appear to have had temporal lobe epilepsy.” ~ David Eagleman
- “When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.” ~ David Eagleman
- “The brain “fills in” the missing information from the blind spot. Notice what you see in the location of the dot when it’s in your blind spot. When the dot disappears, you do not perceive a hole of whiteness or blackness in its place; instead, your brain invents a patch of the background pattern. Your brain, with no information from that particular spot in visual space, fills in with the patterns around it. You’re not perceiving what’s out there. You’re perceiving whatever your brain tells you.” ~ David Eagleman
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“The left is back, and it’s the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.” ~ Hugo Chavez
- “Trump has to do what Reagan did. Trump’s gotta go on the air and tell us what his tax plan is and put it in our faces and put them on the spot. That’s what I think he should do.” ~ Scott Baio
- “If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.” ~ Emile M. Cioran
- “I hear that 5 o’clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I’m also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11 am to 4 pm. But I really work during that time.” ~ Diablo Cody
- “My training has been going really well these past few days and my goal is to keep it up for the next few weeks and hopefully earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic team.” ~ Sasha Cohen
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“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.” ~ Paula Cole
- “I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.” ~ Gail Collins
- “I’ve become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It’s an anti-aging serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.” ~ Joan Collins
- “Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.” ~ Joseph Conrad
- “I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it’s all a dream come true.” ~ Francis Ford Coppola
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“I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.” ~ Larry David
- “When I was living in New York and didn’t have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I’d think, that’ll be good, that’ll be a good spot for me when I’m homeless.” ~ Larry David
- “The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain anymore so it eats it!” ~ Daniel Dennett
- “Girls get competitive, as though there’s only one spot in the world for everything _ but that’s not true. We need to stick together and see there’s more to life than pleasing men. It’s important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.” ~ Zooey Deschanel
- “Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the center, but not the boundary, of the affections.” ~ Mary Baker Eddy
- “The only way to ensure a film is going to sell is put Will Smith in it and you open it in 3,000 theaters and make sure we have all the top promotional spots in each venue.” ~ Omar Epps
