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  • Let's nail it down, let's get it right. -- Frank Reynolds
  • Champions keep playing until they get it right. -- Billie Jean King
  • Don't get it right, just get it written. -- James Thurber
  • You don't have to get it right the first time. -- Barbara Sher
  • Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right. -- Donald Judd
  • If we get it right, there need not be losers. -- John Anderson
  • I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now. -- Louis C. K.
  • To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right. -- Jessica Savitch
  • Rydstrom: "To get it right this time." -- Kresley Cole
  • Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN! -- Lee Child
  • Lets nail it down, lets get it right. -- Frank Reynolds
  • When I practiced, I practiced to get it right. -- Ben Hogan
  • Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right. -- Steve Jobs
  • You can't get it right, until you make it wrong. -- Helen Van Wyk
  • Love is always a surprise and you never get it right. -- John Dufresne
  • Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right. -- Steve Earle
  • Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right. -- Nick Kroll
  • I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right. -- Frank Langella
  • Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right. -- Kathy Reichs
  • Horses react appropriately while waiting for the human to get it right. -- Monty Roberts
  • Many fiction writers who put the science in dont get it right. -- Kathy Reichs
  • You have to do it and do it, until you get it right. -- Julia Child
  • Some matters are simply contentious. Sometimes you're never going to get it right. -- Sara Sheridan
  • The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right. -- Ringo Starr
  • Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong. -- Julie Andrews
  • As for relationships, I know nothing. I'm an idiot; I can't get it right. -- Elle King
  • I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. -- Halle Berry
  • Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. -- Oprah Winfrey
  • Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life. -- Bill Bartmann
  • There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally. -- Stephen Malkmus
  • Let's take off the masks and get real so we can get it right with God. -- Undena Y. Leake Jackson
  • If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art. -- Andy Warhol
  • Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. -- Fred Brooks
  • True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. -- Walter Inglis Anderson
  • Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right. -- David Baldacci
  • Watercolor is like life. Better get it right the first time--you don't get a second chance! -- Sergei Bongart
  • The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. -- Michael Gerber
  • Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong. -- Timothy Keller
  • Secondly, love and relationships are complicated. No one could ever get it right in a four-line sentence. -- Adrian Grenier
  • Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong. -- Steven Jackson
  • Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. -- Dwight Howard
  • The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written. -- John Dufresne
  • If I'm going to do something, I'm going to spend however long it takes to get it right. -- Asif Kapadia
  • Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right. -- Eric Maskin
  • I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right. -- Richard Pryor
  • If you don't get it right with your first family, you can always do it again with another. -- Jon Stewart
  • I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard. -- Pep Guardiola
  • I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right. -- McCoy Tyner
  • Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it. -- S.A. Tawks
  • Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is. -- Jason Statham
  • Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. -- Margaret Mead
  • You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time. -- Joel Salatin
  • A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right. -- Wes Nisker
  • The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right. -- Leslie T. Chang
  • A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it. -- Mary Meeker
  • All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. -- Mark Cuban
  • Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it. -- Trevor Rabin
  • Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right. -- Candace Bushnell
  • I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try. -- Mike Tirico
  • When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. -- Chath Piersath
  • No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time. -- Gerry Rafferty
  • I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right. -- David Spade
  • I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous. -- James Dickey
  • When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time. -- Cher Lloyd
  • Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything. -- Darren Hardy
  • If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. -- Tana French
  • Keep practicing," he told her."Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her."No. Until you don't get it wrong. -- John Flanagan
  • It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close. -- John Lydon
  • If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right. -- Christopher Hampton
  • Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right. -- Tom Clancy
  • What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful? -- Kate Atkinson
  • One's objective should be to get it right, get it quick, get it out and get it over. Your problem won't improve with age. -- Warren Buffett
  • My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right. -- Peter Capaldi
  • I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. -- Halle Berry
  • If I really wanted to say or ask anything important (to her imposing father) I could not trust my tongue to get it right. -- Lynne Olson
  • Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me." -- Tom Cavanagh
  • When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream. -- Ernest Sosa
  • As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right. -- Chris Grayling
  • The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right. -- Neil Gaiman
  • The more educated you get, the better shot you have to get it right, but if you're really trying something different, it's a challenge every time. -- David Copperfield
  • In the moments I get it right, every step I take seems to be matched by a universal mystery, which obligingly, incredibly, creates what I can't. -- Martha Beck
  • You come out of each movie just thinking, "God, if we can fool them into letting us make just one more, we can get it right." -- Rian Johnson
  • Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right! -- Michael Scott
  • Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right. -- Damien Chazelle
  • I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right. -- Jonathan Nolan
  • When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going! -- Barbara Corcoran
  • I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs. -- Colin Firth
  • I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place. -- George W. Bush
  • What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better. -- Matthew Vaughn
  • When they show the destruction of society on color TV, I want to be able to look out over Los Angeles and make sure they get it right. -- Phil Ochs
  • You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right -- Jack Canfield
  • I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right. -- Cherie Blair
  • I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage. -- Stephanie Mills
  • I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way. -- Robert Hass
  • I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right. -- John Banville
  • Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional. -- Ernest Sosa
  • It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate. -- Hosain Rahman
  • You know, in playing a role like this, you really want to get it right, because this is a person who was revered by so many doctors, women doctors especially. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
  • To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts. -- Ruth Gordon
  • I try and get it right the first time. I may rewrite a sentence four or five times, but I rarely go back and kill a whole page and rewrite it. -- Matt Ridley
  • I suppose 'Worried About the Boy' was a brave choice, but only in the sense that if I didn't get it right, my career would be over before it had begun. -- Douglas Booth
  • Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting. -- Richard Hell
  • I've realised that nobody's going to die if I don't get it right and that there are a number of things out there, beyond acting, that are very interesting and fulfilling. -- Matthew Rhys
  • It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go. -- Scott Walker
  • There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done. -- Mary Steenburgen
  • We're not perfect every time. We make mistakes just like everybody else. But, we stay on top of it, and we stay with it, and we make sure we get it right. -- Jack Nicklaus
  • The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. -- Gus Van Sant
  • Any time you put on the mouthpiece of somebody that you're not, there's a professional responsibility to get it right. I did a great deal of research in both of those arenas. -- Jodi Picoult
  • Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special. -- Robert Krulwich
  • Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right. -- Bill Vaughan
  • I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day. -- Richard Pryor
  • We're all competitors, you know? The player wants to get a hit. The manager wants to win. I want to get it right. To tell you the truth, I just love that competition. -- Bruce Froemming
  • You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible. -- Robert Duvall
  • I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right. -- David Copperfield
  • Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air. -- Ann Voskamp
  • You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish. -- Quentin Crisp
  • I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience. -- Shawn Levy
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