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Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. -- Andres Segovia
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery -- John Ray
Lean back into the arms of grace. -- Cheryl Richardson
Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions. -- Laura Busche
Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way. -- Oscar Wilde
Lean against the edge, sweetheart. I'm falling off."--Brent Greene -- Gena Showalter
Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do -- Shigeo Shingo
Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together. -- Juliet Marillier
Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!... -- Ashley Purdy
Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste. -- Eric Ries
Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it -- Beth Comstock
Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns. -- Tehyi Hsieh
Lean too much on the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns -- Tehyi Hsieh
With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part. -- John Novak
Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on. -- Bill Withers
Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously. -- Eric Ries
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. -- T. S. Eliot
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled. -- Eric Ries
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions. -- Pema Chodron
You have no idea, right now, what some young person in your church will mean for the cause of Christ. Lean in, encourage, mentor, think big. -- Albert Mohler
My hope in writing 'Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead' was to change the conversation from what women can't do to what we can. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I dislike those people that see an opera and say "Oh, they can't act it. They just sing. It's boring." Lean back and just listen to the voices. -- Peter Stormare
Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot. -- Jen Hatmaker
Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket! -- Jim Gaffigan
The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. -- Eric Ries
Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely. -- Maurice Jarre
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste. -- Eric Ries
Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old. O Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lean is the ghost of Molly Means. -- Margaret Walker
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Lean from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself. -- Hyman Rickover
Progress in manufacturing is measured by the production of high quality goods. The unit of progress for Lean Startups is validated learning-a rigorous method for demonstrating progress when one is embedded in the soil of extreme uncertainty. -- Eric Ries
I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget. -- Michael Korda
Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore entitled to inspiration in their specific responsibilities. Lean upon them. Learn from them. Love them. Listen to them. -- M. Russell Ballard
Lean toward love at all times, cut people slack, forgive and forget, and be kind, very kind; the more you do that, the less fear you will have. People will raise up to support you. Refuse to be scared in this lifetime. -- Stuart Wilde
HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process. -- Eric Ries
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. -- John Boorman
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Lady beware. Fan not the harmless glow Of admiration into ardent love, Lean not with red curled smiling lips above The flickering spark of sinless flame, and blow, Lest in the sudden waking of desire Thou, like the child, shalt perish in the fire. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody. -- Rod Steiger
You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily. -- Kathy Freston
The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word 'recumbency.' It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages. -- Charles Spurgeon
Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light. -- Kris Carr
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp. -- Henry Rollins
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -- Laurence Sterne
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. -- Dave Matthews
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. -- Denis Waitley
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. -- James Thurber
Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. -- Black Elk
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -- William Butler Yeats
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there. -- Natalie Portman
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance. -- Benito Mussolini
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up. -- Jim Rogers
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky. -- Serena Williams
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. -- Orison Swett Marden
My parents were both in the army for 20 years and then worked in government departments; but they had gone through the Great Depression and known lean times. They always remained extremely frugal and lived far below their means. -- Veronica Webb
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. -- Jesse Ventura
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us. -- Chris Abani
Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it's what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally. -- Mark Webber
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. -- Cat Cora
What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy. -- Jeff Bezos
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. -- Brene Brown
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.' -- Caroline Knapp
I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I've had since I started pitching, you'll see 'Philippians 4:13' written on the brim. That's the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can't do it all by yourself. You can't do it on your own, so you lean on Him. -- Scotty McCreery
Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy. -- Amy Sedaris
When kids run up to me and ask, 'What happened?' I just lean over and whisper, 'Cigarettes.' And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, 'Whoa, what is going on?' She sped off really quickly. -- Nick Vujicic
Run lean; avoid unnecessary expenses. -- Richard Branson
A fat kitchin, a lean Will. -- Benjamin Franklin
Good writing is lean and confident. -- William Zinsser
Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting. -- Patrick Stump
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. -- Edmund Burke
I'm naturally lean and I'm constantly walking. -- Debra Messing
Under no circumstances trust a lean cook. -- Iain Hewitson
A lean sorrow is hardest to bear. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
The hearts that never lean must fall. -- Emily Dickinson
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look -- Julius Caesar
We women adore failures. They lean on us. -- Oscar Wilde
I'd lean more toward werewolves. Wolves are cool. -- Mireille Enos
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness. -- Horace
I know I'm the guy others will lean on. -- Tim Duncan
When you wanna rock hard, children, lean on F#. -- Tom Morello
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. -- George Herbert
If I'm androgynous, I'd say I lean toward macho-androgynous. -- John Travolta
Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean. -- Benvenuto Cellini
A man must take the fat with the lean. -- Charles Dickens
Be passionate about something and lean to that strength. -- Michelle Obama
Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light. -- Kris Carr
Manuel Corpas is long and lean-the opposite of Olmedo Saenz. -- Vin Scully
To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. -- Rod Taylor
Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts. -- Sol Stein
What signifies sadness, sir; a man grows lean on it. -- Henry Mackenzie
I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist. -- John Cale
Mix the the gas with the lean, call that gasoline -- Soulja Boy
We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables. -- Jayne Mansfield
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We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables -- Jayne Mansfield
A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure. -- George S. Clason
The best we can do is lean towards the light. -- Joseph Campbell
The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. -- Socrates
I'm not emaciated; I'm wiry. Most women find lean men appealing. -- Zedd
If something's working, you lean into it. You don't fight it. -- Billy Lawrence
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. -- Horace
I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art! -- Bear Grylls
Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it. -- Brandon Mull
Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you. -- Quentin Crisp
They lard their lean books with the fat of others work. -- Richard Burton
I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic. -- Chris Rock
If you've got time to lean, you've got time to clean. -- Ray Kroc
Don't lean on the past, learn from it and move on. -- Joe Vitale
If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.... -- Ray Kroc
There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years. -- Katherine Heigl
To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels. -- Rebecca Gayheart
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint -- William Wilberforce
A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. [A fat housekeeper makes lean executors.] -- George Herbert
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. -- Tia Walker
In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes. -- Prince Royce
I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself. -- Hal Holbrook

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