Firing Quotes:

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me.

- Rory McIlroy

source: "Rory McIlroy beats tournament record to win Wells Fargo Championship". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2015.

topic: Cylinders, Firing

We'll start firing till they drop or we drop.

- James Dashner

source: James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure”, p.54, Chicken House

topic: Firing

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

- Tom Peters

topic: Wisdom, Fire, Easy, Firing

I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.

- Hayley Atwell

topic: Sexy, Powerful, Gun, Firing, Feeling Sexy

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

topic: Creativity, Soul, Firing

One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a line, armed to the teeth, firing away.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Gun, Insane, Lines, Firing

I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it.

- Prince Harry

source: "Prince Harry Reflects on 21st Birthday", www.foxnews.com. September 15, 2005.

topic: Running, Bullets, Way, Firing

Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.

- Paul Wolfowitz

topic: Employee, Firing

Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

- David Moore

topic: People, Email, Way, Firing, Wrong Way

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

- Robert Breault

topic: Relationship, Break Up, Fire, Back Together, Parting

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

- Sam Walton

source: "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Business, Work, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Travel, Sky, Water, Firing, Immensity

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Gun, Fire, Bangs, Firing

The early firings contained many stones.

- Andy Goldsworthy

topic: Stones, Firing

Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot.....

- David Baldacci

source: David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan

topic: Waste, Next, Attention, Firing, Trespassing

The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want.

- Richard Schickel

topic: Lying, Exercise, Media, Moguls, Media Control

Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.

- Samantha Harris

topic: Thinking, Feet, Energy, Firing

I have never seen an adequate description anywhere of the amazement, the uncomprehending horror of the bulk of the American people which preceded the firing of that gun at Sumter. Politicians or far-sighted leaders on both sides knew what was coming. And it is they who have written histories of the war. But to the easy-going millions, busied with their farms or shops, the onrushing disaster was as inexplicable as an earthquake. Their protest arose from sea to sea like the clamor of a gigantic hive of frightened bees.

- Rebecca Harding Davis

topic: War, Gun, Sea, Firing, Written History

Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

- Sebastian Junger

topic: War, Years, Ideas, Missiles, Javelin

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

- William Tecumseh Sherman

topic: War, Tired, Blood, Desolation, Groaning

I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.

- Joycelyn Elders

topic: Gun, Order, Bullets, Firing, Gun Owners

Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

- John Waters

topic: Gun, Zips, World, Homemade, Firing

Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

- Herbert Benson

topic: Pain, Memories, Stress, Firing, Chronic Pain

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

- Elliott Masie

topic: Teaching, Higher Education, Ceremony, Firing

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me.

- Toby Young

topic: Writing, Waiting, Pieces, Firing

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

- Nicholas D. Kristof

source: "What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?" by Nicholas Kristof, www.nytimes.com. May 10, 2014.

topic: Girl, Book, Reading, Extremism, Firing

I really believe that an awakening, a greater perspective on our lives and existence is happening. It's really the firing of archetypes that are already built into our brains, we just are able to awaken to a point where we can see a greater beauty in the world, a greater connection and sense of well being. This is what the mystics speak about. The insights fire us up into a greater consciousness on the planet. So it is a greater consciousness at the same time and a greater awareness of our spiritual nature. That is what the 'aha' is.

- James Redfield

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Fire, Archetype, Firing

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.

- Leslie Jamison

source: Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books

topic: Choices, Empathy, Brain, Meteors, Firing

Buy when the cannons are firing, and sell when the trumpets are blowing

- Nathan Meyer Rothschild

topic: Money, War, Trumpets, Firing, Cannons

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

- Andre Breton

topic: Gun, Crowds, Surrealist, Loaded Gun, Firing

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

- Becky Freeman

source: Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

topic: Teenage, Race, Brain, Firing, Synapses

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

- Kate Beckinsale

topic: Party, Character, Gun, Firing

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

- H. G. Wells

source: H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

topic: War, Gun, Men, Killing A Man, Firing

We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first bad move. ... The question was how we should maneuver them [the Japanese] into the position of firing the first shot.

- Henry L. Stimson

topic: Moving, Japan, Faces, Fencing, Firing

In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles.

- David Papineau

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Pain, Thinking, Squares, Firing, Dissociation

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

- Emmanuel Jal

topic: Dream, Sleep, Gun, Firing

Become better at firing than hiring - it's crucial for building a business.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Building, Hiring, Firing, Building A Business

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

- David Horowitz

topic: Rights, Views, Political, Leftists, Firing

They said Reagan was too dangerous. It was Reagan who ended the Soviet Union without firing a shot.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Unions, Shots, Said, Firing, They Said

The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

topic: Jobs, Legacy, Cylinders, Firing

Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function long enough to give an opportunity to discover where the failure occurred. Most early debacles were so benighted that rocket engineers could have been forgiven for daubing the blood of a virgin goat on the orifice of the firing chamber.

- Norman Mailer

topic: Opportunity, Simple, Blood, Debacles, Firing

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

- Moss Hart

topic: Heart, Play, People, Firing

I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

- Celia Imrie

topic: Stars, War, Gun, Firing, Fighter Pilot

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

- Fritz Kreisler

source: Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Eye, Mind, Lines, Hypnotic, Firing

Love is indeed at root the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.

- Julian Baggini

source: "Philosophy V Science: Which Can Answer the Big Questions of Life?" by Julian Baggini and Lawrence Krauss, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 2012.

topic: Love Is, Roots, Neurons, Firing

Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

- Raine Maida

topic: Reading, Creative, Fuel, Firing, Synapses

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

- William Eldridge Odom

topic: War, Way, Nuclear, Firing

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

- George Orwell

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Winning, Pinching, Inspiring Leader

You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

- Mara Liasson

topic: Squad, Trump, Establishment, Firing, Marcos