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It's not dark yet But it's getting there -- Bob Dylan
It's the journey that's important, not the getting there! -- John McLeod
We want to live forever, and we're getting there. -- William J. Clinton
Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything. -- Jules Michelet
I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off. -- Honor Blackman
It's got to be the going, not the getting there, that's good. -- Harry Chapin
Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there. -- Ken Blanchard
Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there -- Anne Graham Lotz
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. -- John P. Kotter
We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there? -- John McLeod
Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there... -- Cecelia Ahern
It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going. -- Alan Bean
To be a good director, you have to have good life experience. I'm getting there. -- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
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People who achieve the greatest success are the people who have the most fun getting there. -- John Patrick Hickey
The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there? -- Rose Macaulay
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. -- Vita Sackville-West
Woody Allen is in his '70s and he's making movies, so I look forward to getting there. -- Brett Ratner
I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more. -- Mark E. Smith
The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be. -- Chris Burkmenn
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there. -- Clayton Christensen
it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination. -- Eudora Welty
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. -- Colin Greenwood
I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit] -- Kerry Katona
America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there. -- Jennifer Granholm
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. -- Laurence J. Peter
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. -- Henry David Thoreau
Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. -- Walt Disney
I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there. -- Michael Jordan
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
I don't want to spend my whole life talking about the promised land without ever getting there. I want to live in it. -- Joyce Meyer
I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel - packing my bags and choosing my outfits - but my favourite part is getting there. -- Dominic Monaghan
You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time. -- Andy Rooney
Are you in love with me, Camryn Bennett?" "¦ "Not yet," I say with a smile in my voice, "but I'm getting there. -- J.A. Redmerski
Becoming a champion is not an easy process... It is done by focusing on what it takes to get there and not on getting there. -- Nick Saban
I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept. -- Eliot Paulina Sumner
Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth it. -- Emeli Sande
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on. -- Alan Bennett
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. -- David Lee
You don't really want to be always thinking about the future, always thinking about where you're heading for. You've got to think about how you're getting there. -- Simon Le Bon
Winning games, titles and championships isn't all it's cracked up to be, but getting there, the journey, is a lot more than it's cracked up to be. -- John Wooden
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. -- Edward Burtynsky
I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there. -- John Katzman
Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there. -- Andrew McMahon
For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut. -- Alexander McQueen
It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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Wherever my career takes me, I know I'll love getting there, because ever since I was 2 1/2 years old, I knew that this was all I ever wanted to do. -- Marilu Henner
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home. -- Eugene Cernan
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home. -- Eugene Cernan
It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators. -- Russell L. Ackoff
I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there. -- Mordicai Gerstein
Donald Trump is interesting to people. He's intriguing. But they want to see that Donald Trump in the White House. And he's getting there and he's going to pivot there. -- Reince Priebus
It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there. -- Hrithik Roshan
Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It's so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents. -- Donald Trump
My only focus was the Olympics because in my sport, that is the ultimate. Everything is geared toward that, and my entire life was geared around getting there and winning gold. -- Cammi Granato
Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A stupid is one who thinks that those in power today had clandestine means of getting there, yet wants to get there without thinking of the clandestine route they would be taking. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. -- Max Lerner
The Higher Education Industry is very analogous to the Newspaper industry. By the time they realize they need to change the costs to support their legacy infrastructure and costs will keep them from getting there. -- Mark Cuban
I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good. -- A. R. Rahman
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there. -- Michael Korda
The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
I like helping children. I have a big thing with children. You can correspond with the child, send something to them as a gift. You know it's actually getting there and you are doing something to help. -- Lisa Marie Presley
Bitcoin is getting there but it's not there yet. When it gets there, expect governments to panic and society to be reshaped into something where governments cannot rely on taxing income nor wealth for running their operations. -- Rick Falkvinge
I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time. -- Buzz Aldrin
There's not even room enough to be anywhere/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.../I was born here and I'll die here against my will/I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still -- Bob Dylan
People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises. -- Bear Grylls
I take the subway because I don't like having someone else driving. It's hard for me to be in a cab, because the traffic makes me feel insane. On the subway you're getting there faster and it's easier. -- Chloe Sevigny
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. -- John P. Kotter
Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired. -- Donald A. Norman
I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind. -- Alan Grant
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. -- Bob Dylan
Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there. -- Dick Clark
I think I'm getting there, but it's very hard to perform at my absolute peak when an awful lot of people come just to make their presence known, when the lights go down and all you can hear is people screaming. -- George Michael
[Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal immigration. They want to see it, and we all do. But we all have different ways of getting there. -- John Kasich
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection. -- Anton Corbijn
You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don't know what the baby is going to become. Therefore, you wait and take good care of it until it becomes what it will. -- Milton H. Erickson
Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.' -- Imogen Heap
I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.' -- Ben Huh
You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching. -- Imelda May
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me, -- Carrie Brownstein
I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes. -- V. E. Schwab
People think that Detroit is this barren wasteland. While there are parts that are not as nice as others, the misconception is not true. It is definitely not a thriving community in Detroit, but it is getting there. There is a lot of heart and love in this city. -- Steven Yeun
The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there? -- Elisabeth Elliot
It gets late early out there. -- Yogi Berra
Get there first with the most. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
When there's a war, people get married. -- Doris Lessing
All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There are plenty of good-looking women out there. Go get them. -- Willard Scott
Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy. -- Michael Keaton
There is no question that the older you get, the fewer good roles there are. -- Michelle Pfeiffer
I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous. -- Megan Hilty
I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it. -- Manolo Blahnik
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting. -- Jonathan Tropper
Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there. -- Ann Dowd
There's no such thing as an overnight success. It took me a long to get there. -- Cindy Margolis
When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller. -- Bobby Locke
Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back. -- Duane G. Carey
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. -- Ellen Goodman
Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved. -- Tom Wilkinson
Sephora is fantastic. I go in there. I get lost. There are so many great things in there. -- Tyra Banks
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to. -- D. H. Lawrence
My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?' -- Mario Van Peebles
I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard. -- Malcolm Gets
Some people there's no getting over. -- Lisa Kleypas
Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that. -- Elon Musk
There's no getting blood out of a turnip. -- Frederick Marryat
There's nothing like boxing for getting you in shape. -- Christian Bale
I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs. -- Nicole Kidman
This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing. -- Waylon Jennings
There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. -- Bill Gates
There's no getting away from it: you have to clean. -- Anthea Turner
Getting there isn't half the fun, it's all the fun. -- Robert Townsend
I highly recommend getting older! There's less tendency to people-please. -- Alanis Morissette
There's a ton of amazing music that's not getting heard. -- A-Trak
There's something really cool about getting scared. I don't know what. -- Shane McConkey
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There's always a certain pride in getting the job done properly. -- Tom Hardy

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