Checking Quotations

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like.

That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action.

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for the first time and no one was checking on me. I wasn't anorexic but lost three stone. I weighed around seven. It lasted six months until I ran out of willpower.

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

If you wait to see how much money you have left at the end of the month to put toward savings, the answer may be zero. So, set up an automated monthly transfer from your checking to savings account. Once you lock into that commitment, you'll be forced to scale back spending to make ends meet.

I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.

I will sleep all day; I love staying in bed with my dog and reading and not getting up and checking my phone. And that gets me into trouble because I have things to do, and that's not very productive.

People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And it's cool to check up on your friends and see what's going on in the world, but it's not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet.

Sprout's a really cool app for pregnant women. It shows you what your baby's development is in real time, so I find myself checking it quite often.

There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.

We are happy to get great technology from anywhere, and we have eyes and ears that are checking out companies all over.

For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

Dick Cheney and Al Gore have redefined the role of the vice president in the minds of the public. It should be a big job, beyond simply checking the health status of the president.

The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Checking your telomere length is a bit like weighing yourself: you get this single number which depends on a lot of factors. Telomere length gives a sense of your underlying health.

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.

Make the most of online banking to make your life easier and keep your finances organized. Online banking is great because it offers quick, easy, 24-hour access to your checking and savings accounts.

I once missed an appointment because I left my house, I locked the door. And then I thought, like anybody else, you know, 'I don't think I locked the door.' I just kept going back to the door. And I couldn't stop myself from checking and checking.

When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.

My assistants pay a lot of attention to that stuff, checking scores during the game and things like that. But I don't even know what the standings are. I know that it's going to be a dogfight until the end.

Only by opposing and checking Taiwan's independence forces can we eliminate the biggest threat harming the peaceful and stable development of ties across the strait.

Popular music is an undeniable component of Chevy's DNA, ... And country music is increasingly crossing-over to attract huge, mainstream audiences. That's why we're so excited to bring The Chevy Music Festival to the Big Apple and give New Yorkers a chance to enjoy some great music -- while checking out some of our great cars and trucks.

Popular music is an undeniable component of Chevy's DNA. And country music is increasingly crossing-over to attract huge, mainstream audiences. That's why we're so excited to bring The Chevy Music Festival to the Big Apple and give New Yorkers a chance to enjoy some great music -- while checking out some of our great cars and trucks.

I was surprised that they didn't make an announcement that they were going to close it. There hadn't been much action in our ballpark for a while, so we were only checking twice a day.

One of the things we didn't have skills with was automated tools for checking our code. So, one of the first things that we did with our secure software service was running automated tools against our code base and discovering potential problems.

Money market and checking account rates are more closely tied to Fed activity. Some banks are offering higher interest rates on checking and money market accounts, but these are promotional rates that are temporary and do not affect the core product interest rate.

Neither side reached 50 percent (in the lower house) and the margin is under 25,000 votes. Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting and tally sheets.

NSA is guilty of buying a bill of goods from contractors without checking to see if it is feasible. The contractors are guilty of promising the moon and not delivering. And Congress is guilty for failing to oversee it from beginning to end.

Riding my motorcycle around L.A. is like my own video game. But unlike many folks at the wheel, I am occupied with getting where I'm going and keeping myself safe. Most people are applying makeup, texting, and checking out the beauty in the next car.

I got my first real inkling of this (Monday) night. The long and short of it is our compliance office, in doing the things they do, checking and double checking and making sure that everything is right, brought this to our attention. We followed through (Tuesday) morning.

I don't have to do anything. Nothing. Just follow up with her and watch what I eat and drink a lot of water. There are little things you have going on that you have to monitor. I'm just happy we can move on and that we were able to get a hold of this, as far as checking myself. I'm relieved.

I don't know what the rules are, but we'll be checking on those. If we have the capability to add him to ours, we definitely will do that.

Lets collide and get it over with. We've had our list of streaks to break and been checking them off. This is our improvised list. Everybody knows what it takes. We're playing the team expected to win the national championship. Either you bring it or you don't.

We recommend keeping your cars well maintained, checking air pressure in your tires and combining errands into one trip to save gas. If everyone did that, the conservation efforts would make a huge difference on the price factor.

Since we were very close, I was checking to see if anyone would catch up or try to pass me.

Mobile technologies increasingly enable real-time collaboration and access to information across the healthcare system, allowing for more informed decisions in clinical and administrative scenarios. Whether used for checking case-management records, consulting with a colleague, or any number of other important daily activities, mobile solutions empower people to generate efficiencies and reduce costs in the healthcare setting, but most importantly contribute to higher-quality patient care.

Most people have a checking account and a savings account. I like for them to set up a separate mutual fund account.

Many banks offer free checking accounts for customers who use direct deposit.

Many companies restrict Internet activity so heavily that it makes it difficult for people to do online research. The most obvious example? Checking the Facebook profile of someone you just interviewed.

Shoppers won't just be at the mall this weekend, but they will be checking things out online. Where they find the better deal is where they might actually make the purchase.

He knows what he's doing. He's been around for a while now. He kept checking the ball down three or four times, I knew he was going to go over the linebackers one of these times. He was just baiting them. That's Kurt.

I can't really remember. I think I pulled out the gun. I was like checking the lock. I was already holding it, and I was fixing to drop it, and I didn't know what was going to happen if I would have dropped it. It all went from there.

But we had an aunt and uncle that came in Thursday before they were supposed to be allowed in, and the officers didn't even stop them, ... That really concerns me. No one is even checking to see if the people coming in are actually local residents.

Based on the serious nature of this ring, we are checking all of this out.

I don't believe until this came up anybody had gone to the trouble of checking name by name (for dead voters). Frankly, it was only a question of time that this was going to show up.

I don't believe there were any case workers checking in with this family.

Basically checking the, some of the spec on the computer and also using the visual cue that we have in order to help him in driving the arm.

Today, for the good of my own health and because I love my family more than anything, I am checking myself into a rehabilitation center to help me in my battle with alcoholism and its unhealthy interaction with pain medications I have been prescribed for many years,

He was missing for nearly 24 hours before we were notified, ... We started our search right away, checking roadsides to see if we could see any signs of him in ditches.

He was in a checking role in L.A.. I've always known he has skill, but it's really coming together for him this year. It's nice to see. He's a great guy and it's good to see him put the puck in the net.

I'm always coming out, checking scores, sneaking out of the kitchen.

I'm all into my rap grooves. I'm checking out artists like Lil' Wayne and Trick Daddy.

I'm always ready to play, and I'm always expecting to play. Whether or not I do is another thing. When he called my name, I was kind of double checking to make sure it was me, because I didn't want to get up and then it not be me.

Going uphill, you do have to compensate by running slower. Rather than checking your watch (on a hill), go for the same perceived effort as you ran on the flats. I find the best way to do this is to monitor your breathing. If you are breathing more heavily going up the hill, shorten your stride.

He's just the smartest football player I've ever been around. He was checking off all over the place. He saw everything. He knows what is going to happen before it happens.

He said he'll be back in a few days. They're just doing tests on him and checking him over and hopefully, hopefully he'll be home soon.

I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.

I finished the game, I'm OK. I knew I was not going to be a big factor. I was hoping they'd play the checking line against us. It still didn't work.

He made the officials sweat checking our cars. He was always looking for an edge. We set him loose.

We're preparing as if we're getting a Class 4 hurricane, checking equipment, supplies, generators, communications, backup communications capabilities, phones and pagers, ... Our normal disaster recovery procedures are in place.

Keep the bulk of your money in the fund, then transfer a few thousand to checking whenever you need it.

Texting comes in addition to sending letters, ... Nothing can replace a handwritten letter checking in on a player. It's an electronic message that's not really as personal. And unless a player can really trust a program, they won't go there. And I don't think we can earn that trust by simply sending messages.

I was actually shooting 'Warm Bodies' on the day that '50/50' came out, which I don't recommend to other filmmakers because I was sort of a wreck. Actually, it was good for me, because I had work to do, so I couldn't obsess all day and be checking how '50/50' was doing!

I went into a really bad state of depression. In today's world you need a checking account. Savings is good, but you need a checking account.

My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to school, never miss a day at school, and then checking out homework and making sure I was doing it correctly and signing me up for lots of activities, extra tests and classes.

Someone in the administration said that we don't want FEMA having to look over its shoulder all the time to see when the money comes, ... My reply is I absolutely want FEMA looking over its shoulder and worrying that we're back here checking up on it, to make sure it's doing its job.

Rebounding was a huge concern. We worked hard on checking them out and not being able to hurt us on the offensive boards.

Statistics greatly underestimate dropout rates because they rely on school principals who weren't checking on them. When students disappeared, the principals just wrote them as transfers.

Passengers checking bags will pay for the service they use rather than the cost being unfairly spread across everyone on the flight.

Such a tiny difference necessitates a scrupulous checking of the counting.

I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

Jim Hunter (NASCAR vice president) walked in our pits and said we're going to check the tire pressures, ... What I didn't understand in the beginning was if you blow a tire and hit the wall and your pressures were too low, we're going to take points. And I thought, 'well how are you going to check pressures in a right front after the wreck?' So then we were told they were coming through checking them and if your pressures were too low that they could take points.

I thought we were a little lethargic during the first two periods with all the travel we've done. Our timing was better and our checking a lot better in the third period. We did a better job of getting ourselves into a scoring position later in the game.

I think the recruiting process, with all the Internet interviews and people checking up to see what things are said about them on the Internet, I think it's distracted young people a little bit. I'm not sure it's what they should be keeping their closest eye on, but I understand when someone's talking and you're one of the subjects, you're a little bit interested.

I think every week is a different challenge. It's fun checking out a new team. If we can handle this, we can handle the next step. We know we're not a great team right now, but we want to be, and we know this is one of the steps we have to take.

I think ACS should have been checking on her. The system could have did better. A child going back to an ex-drug addict, they should have been checking more, at least once a year, if nothing else.

I was having a nap by the swimming pool and was awoken by this huge hand holding my wrist. I looked up and this gorilla-like shape had blocked out the sunlight. It was Freddie. 'It's alright, it's Freddie. I've never seen you quiet for so long David and I was just checking you still had a pulse,' Freddie told me.

I was the one checking him, and they had hit shots in my face the whole game. When he pulled up for the jumper, I put a hand in his face. I was hoping and praying it wouldn't go in.

I was the one checking him, and they had made shots in my face the whole game. On that last shot, I wasn't sure if he was going to try to go to the hole or pull it back for the 3. When he pulled up for that jumper, I put a hand in his face and was just hoping and praying it was going off.

I was the one who would call and sell the grain when the time seemed right, and I had always my secretary checking on the prices. Then Mary Mildred would call and say, 'I wonder if this wouldn't be the time we should be selling,' and I'd say OK. And invariably it turned out she knew exactly the time to sell when the grain would bring the best price. I don't know how she did it, but it worked out every time.

I will tell you, I fly less because my knowledge of the system is better than the general public. And I think we endanger the general public by not checking the cargo in the belly of an aircraft.

It doesn't hurt for a parent to show up on Open House, the first day of school, like I will be doing this year and checking those kinds of things out,

I think the police have better things to do than to drive around looking in people's cars checking if they're wear a seat belt. There are other areas of law enforcement that need to be focused on.

I think it's best not to rely on an individual physician. Individual doctors have their specialties, their biases, their preferences for certain kinds of treatment and getting multiple opinions is the only way you can create a sense of trust in that particular course of action. It's a ways of checking and balancing the subjectivity or the prejudices of an individual physician.

It comes down to checking the endpoints with a client to see if they are compliant with a policy that says they are safe to be admitted to the network.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent . . .

Unfortunately, recovering from something like a reset is a slow, lengthy process. You don't know what caused the problem, and the immediate concern is that whatever triggered it will do it again next time you try it. The thing you have to do is fire up each of the rover's capabilities one at a time, checking each one carefully and individually to see whether it would cause another reset or not. Standard spacecraft troubleshooting practicebut it takes time.

We are in the final stage of this project and we are now waiting on the city and fire marshal to go over the building to make sure we are in compliance with all of the codes. We are also attending to punch list items such as checking all of the equipment in the building to make sure they are working properly.

With the growing popularity of Web-enabled mobile devices, we wanted to offer our customers the convenience of checking in for their flight wherever they may be.

We have already introduced some great new products. (HUB) did not have free business checking and they did not have a commitment to free personal checking.

Most of all it's just being physical, checking guys. A lot of guys get frustrated by that. So you're stirring it up a bit and you get a certain label.

Unless you're checking the log files on a mail server, you're not going to be aware this is happening. What you might be aware of is slow performance on your mail server.

We had expected that the government would lift a ban on U.S. beef after checking U.S. meatpacking plants by themselves.