Proving Quotes

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I still need to go through the process of proving myself.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care.

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever and that he can only know relations.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I love proving people wrong.

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.