Andy Rooney Quotes

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'

Suspicions too often block progress.

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

Man, I'm sick of doubt.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

Don't make me regret this", I said breathless. "You haven't regretted me once.

People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

There have been plenty of chances to close my eyes and go back to the sleep of my life as it was, but I hadn't taken any of them. Do I wish now that I had? It's hard to answer that question, as the wraiths move closer.

Do you want me to answer that?

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.