Browsing Topic Best Fine Lines Quotes

You can either tell yourself, ‘It’s too hard, I don’t think I’ll be able to do it,’ or ‘Yes, I can do this. Let me at it!’ Only a fine line separates the two. But I’ll tell you one thing: if you work like crazy, you’ll come to display capabilities that you never knew you had–potentials that you always possessed, but never tapped.

When you’re a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you’re accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

I’d like to. Problem is, I’m not stupid. You act stupid. Right. Thanks for that. For your information, there’s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid. It’s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.

Where I’ve arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there’s a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don’t. An entrepreneur’s dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone’s expense – and those are my fine lines; obviously they’re there – I want it to be something that’s pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad.

I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience. There’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

For artists, there’s a very fine line between delusion and belief.

Don’t hoo, hoo, hoo me. There’s a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don’t. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

I think it’s OK to talk about your military service, but there’s a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I feel like I walk a very fine line between wanting someone to be open and vulnerable and honest with me and the listeners, but not wanting anyone to ever feel like I’m exploiting them.

I don’t care what anyone says. You have to wake up and say to yourself, ‘I accept that I have diabetes, and I’m not going to let it run my entire life.’ It’s a fine line, a Catch-22, a balancing act. I work to enjoy my life like a regular human being and at the same time keep my blood sugar levels as decent as possible.

It’s always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it’s ‘ugly Australians’, but if you have a smile on your face it’s Australia being too nice.

There’s a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

There’s a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.

Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. ‘It’s important to stand up for what’s right,’ Mr. Eberhardt had said, ‘but sometimes there’s a fine line between courage and stupidity.

There’s a fine line between heartbreak and love. It’s a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

When you think about it, there is really a fine line between being a proctologist and just being a perverted ass-freak. And according to the judge who sentenced me, that line is called a ‘medical degree’.

Pushing myself against my own will really, because some of this stuff is hard. I don’t consider myself to be a great guitar player, so pushing myself as a guitar player or pushing myself as a singer, as a performer, and just riding that fine line between being so hard on yourself that it’s counter-productive and being so hard on yourself that nothing is ever good enough is what drives me.

Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent – they’re with Disney! Come on. Or they’re with Warner Brothers. They’re all with somebody.

There’s a very fine line between one person’s reality and another person’s fantasy.

My mum is in a mental hospital. There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

But there’s a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That’s more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

There’s a very fine line between giving someone the Heimlich maneuver and dry-humping a stranger.

‘3:10 to Yuma’ was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason is because, like in most Westerns, you have the very clear-cut bad-guy/good-guy, however, as the movie progresses, you kind of see that it’s a very fine line that divides these two.

…there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.