Top 277 Lean Quotes

With a rowdy audience, the trick is not to go louder and try to beat them into submission. It’s to go quieter. As they get loud, you get soft. Then they lean in towards you to listen.

I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist.

At drama school we were encouraged to keep fit and healthy, but not to bulk out. We were told to stay lithe to allow our bodies to morph when we’re playing various parts. Running is ideal for this, especially when I needed a lean look for the Channel 4 drama ‘Cucumber.’

By the end of the winter, I’m always battling too-tight pants. My solution: Eat lean protein, good grains, and veggies.

We were doing it under the most extraordinary circumstances, but the first out of the tent in the morning would be David Lean. He said to me on the very first day of shooting, Pete, this is the beginning of a great adventure.

When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

Folks are like plants; we all lean toward the light.

Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.

I’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.

I attribute my lean physique to the regime I’ve been following thanks to my brother Rahul who made sure fitness was of prime importance in my life.

I just want to lean on my team to make the best decisions for me because, knowing myself, I won’t say no to anybody.

To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels.

In voiceover, you have to restrain yourself when you’re acting in the sound booth in front of the microphone. If you lean left or you lean right, you’re going to lose the voice. Yet you yourself become animated when you’re doing the part. So you’ll see a lot of flailing arms, but a very still face.

I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

If you are looking to get lean, protein and veg is going to get you there. Starchy carbs should be timed around workouts only. Portion control is pivotal to keep calories in check.

I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don’t think I’m ugly. I have good days and bad days, and I like when I’m fit and lean and all of those things that any woman likes, but it’s not the eye of the hurricane for me.

My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it’s one of the first plans that’s worked for me.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Resveratrol had a decent benefit when the mice were obese and sedentary. The mice that were fed a lean diet and resveratrol lived significantly longer than other treated mice as well as those that had no healthy diet and no resveratrol. So resveratrol is not an excuse to be lazy or eat whatever you want.

There’s been this sort of attitude in media in the past in this country that it’s not our job to fall on one side or the other. But what I’m suggesting is that in this day and age, there is no deciding not to fall on one side of the other. You’re going to be on a side, so you’ve got to lean in and choose the right one.

I probably prefer comedy. Why? I’m not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I’m grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.

I cannot live on myths; somehow, science convinces me more easily. I am prone to lean towards science, ethics, and philosophy rather than myth, religion, and rituals.

The colored race saved to the noble women of New England and the middle States men on whom they lean today for security and safety. Many of my race, the representatives of these men on the field of battle, sleep in the countless graves of the South.

Being lean doesn’t make you any more worthy, any more beautiful or any more valuable. It doesn’t make you a more fit person, it doesn’t mean you’ve worked harder in the gym, people who are leaner than you aren’t better than you.

The fact that I am as lean as I was in 2008, I’m stronger than I was in 2008 I think I have the potential to be as fast as I was.

Since childhood I’ve always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it’s a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.

When there’s an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that’s what makes you lean forward.

Cycling keeps me lean and I need to stay in shape, especially as I still like eating chocolate and ice-cream! I like to go mountain biking too. Running is also good; it’s what we were designed to do as humans, so it comes naturally.

I like to lean on making wrestling the most believable, realistic form of entertainment as possible for the most part.

Everything changed after ‘Lean On.’

David Lean is very, very easy to get on with.

It’s always good to have other people who you can lean on and pick you up when you’re down and vice versa.

I lean traditional, but ‘Head Over Boots,’ it’s pretty country.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

When I lost weight due to only eating once a day, people said how lean and healthy I looked.

A ‘healthy diet’ includes meals rich in whole grains, vegetables, nuts and fruits. Lean protein such as fish and chicken are recommended, and processed meats, such as bologna or cured ham and bacon, should be avoided.

Decades before we were able to articulate the value of ‘getting out of the building‘ and the Lean Startup, the value in having skunk works controlling their own distribution was starkly evident.

There’s a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I’m terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

I have a tendency to lean towards a more retro look.

Those who aren’t actors needn’t juggle from lean to bulky and back. It’s great to maintain a stable body type. Be consistent in your approach towards fitness.

So I try to follow the Paleo diet, no processed foods – a lot of lean meats, veggies and fruits.

I’m a big pasta guy, but I’ve cut it out to stay fast and lean.

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, ‘Which way?’

I type most of my books for the first chapter or two – I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so – and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don’t end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

The ability to lean into adversity is something I’ve always had.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

We shouldn’t be too critical of players if they do have lean patches.

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

I make sure to eat lots of lean protein.

To be able to lean back on my faith and to realize that God‘s plan is way bigger than mine. You have to trust in that.

Many women find long, lean sexy legs hard to get. One reason is that before menopause, most of us store a disproportionate amount of fat in our lower bodies, particularly in our hips and thighs.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to ‘lean in,’ well, do that.

By keeping your eye on the ultimate goal, you lean into the mess and try to make the outcome a little better.

Cardio should be added to a weightlifting programme to A, keep you fit and healthy and B, keep you somewhat lean.

Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music, the energy, and the sweat. It’s a tough class, which makes me feel like I’ve really accomplished something. It’s a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!

Before Covid, the first victim of my busy schedule used to be my workout. Then, luckily, the lockdown gave me more than enough time to start a vigorous regime. I had all the time in the world to build lean muscle without going the route of fat burners or unhealthy supplements.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.

It’s businesses versus big government. We don’t need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that’s exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it’s put together. By and large it’s the eye, the hand and if it’s any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist’s body; you can really lean on it.

We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

If there was one thing I’d like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

We lean on each other when we are going through hard days. We are a family.

Everyone has different interests, but instead of constructive learning, people generally tend to lean towards the negative… and I think social media has somehow given fuel to this kind of thinking.

Lean steak cuts provide an excellent source of high-quality protein, and the taste is second to none! Chicken and turkey are great as well, but I prefer steak myself.

The big challenge is looking ripped and lean without being too big because on camera, it’s easy to appear thick.

I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don’t watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you’re looking for it, you see it all, but it’s not in your face.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

Whether they ‘lean into’ career, family, or both, let’s not underestimate the wisdom of women to define happiness and success for themselves.

I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it’s an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it’s a love story, and it’s funny, and it’s light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can’t just be like, ‘Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I’m going to lean on the mike stand.’ No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they’ll find someone else.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

I followed the same diet for 20 years, eliminating starches, living on salads, lean meat, and small portions.

If you are looking to get lean, protein and veg is going to get you there. Starchy carbs should be timed around workouts only. Portion control is pivotal to keep calories in check.

When I am filming dramas, I lean towards doing what the public wants to see from me.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo – lean startup-style – to serve the American people better.

I’m light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that’s something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it’s weird.

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it’s rhythmic control. You’re crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.

In Spanish, for whatever reason, I lean more toward the high notes.

I’ve learned to cook, I’ve got ‘Lean in 15’ cookbooks – I even make my own sauces. If I have lasagne, it will be homemade with the sheets. It’s a little bit geekish but I enjoy it.

Tough times not only make you stronger, but you grow from those experiences. The same is true with fighting. You have to lean into it.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

The Democratic Party is at grave risk of completely marginalizing itself from the American voters by continuing to lean into its absolutist anti-enforcement positions.

Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.

I didn’t see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a platform for this – one that allowed our works to be seen, but to also weave a community of women that could lean on and work with one another.

My job as a mother isn’t just to provide for my children, it’s to be there for them, too – someone they can speak to, hang out with, and lean on.

I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Cardio activity burns fat, and when you burn fat while building muscle, you change the ratio of stored fat to lean muscle mass, and your arms appear to be more defined.

I’ve just realised that I lean towards telly that features people of a similar age to me. That’s a bit weird, isn’t it? I watch soaps with casts of all ages because there are at least three or four people in my age band. Somehow it’s fine if they’re a murderer as long as they’re not a young one.

There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it’s a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

My idea is not to be big. I just want to be really lean and shredded as I possibly can get – a lot of cardio, light weight, and a lot of my own weight to build up my endurance.

People tend to lean on cardio machine handles, and their posture begins to suffer.

When you’re improvising, it’s fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that’s very helpful.

You can train and train until you are blue in the face, but you’ve got to diet, you’ve got to have that leanness because if you are not lean, your abs won’t show. Of course, the training has to be put in, but then you’ve to shed all the fat and keep the fat off. And that’s how you get an eight pack.

You want two-thirds of that plate to be consisting of vegetables, whole grains and fruits, with one-third of it protein. That protein can be a bean – black beans, chick peas, lentils. It can be a lean protein, like fish or poultry.

Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

People always lean toward who’s the best guitar player, who’s the best singer? I don’t see it that way. They’re all the best, you know? They’ve all gotten your attention, you’ve admired them, you’ve tried to sing like them. That makes them the best, each and every one of ’em.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don’t yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

If I make a song, and it’s my song, like ‘Lean On,’ we’re going to make money off the synchs, the Spotify, and we get to headline festivals on it. That’s the model I want to explore.

We lean on each other when we are going through hard days. We are a family.

A lot of times when you’re an investor, it’s very easy to lean back and say, ‘Well, people should come to me in Silicon Valley.’ YC has the opposite opinion.

The most influential person in my life had been George Michael. He was very important to me and was one of my musical heroes growing up. Then he became a friend and mentor and someone I’d lean on.

I’m actually not a huge circus fan in the traditional sense, but I like a lot of the circus trappings of striped tents and caramel. I lean more towards Cirque du Soleil than Barnum and Bailey.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

Does anyone remember who shot Kubrick‘s movies? Do you remember who shot David Lean’s movies? No one remembers who shot ‘Dr. Strangelove’ or ‘Barry Lyndon.’

I’m trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere – over my notes – and I – how do you ‘lean in’ at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

I can’t watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is ‘What am I doing with my hands?’ or ‘Why did I lean that way?’ or ‘What’s that look on my face?’ It’s too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I had a history teacher who taught us a lot about the Cold War. You had these examples of countries where the government had tried to manage the economy really intensely, and it ended up being bad for the citizens there. I found myself beginning to lean more right on economic issues.

I’ll do like a more intense workout in the morning and then for lunch I have lean proteins, like all the seafood I want and white fish, turkey and lots of veggies.

Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn’t. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy – nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.

I always need to find somewhere to sit, or something to lean on.

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

I don’t know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren’t necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.

As a general rule, the more precious the chips you’d consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.

I want to make sure I have something I can lean on after football.

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don’t know any of these writers.

Right now I’d love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest… Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt.

Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.

Who you know, 10 albums later, get better than he’s ever been before? It’s hard. To come from all this huge success like a ‘What’s Love,’ and a ‘Lean Back,’ then take it back to the street with ‘The Darkside.’

I graduated from high school at 165 pounds, so twice a year, I get back to that number – I never let it get to 172-73. Then I go back to doubling the cardio. This week, I’m on a complete liquid diet, a juice fast. It keeps me lean and hungry.

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they’re the good ones. There’s a lean, mean hunger.

I should be European, man. I’m long and lean. I’d look good in a trench coat.

One of the greatest benefits to come out of ‘Lean In’ was convincing women to help and support other women – not out of this sense of duty and that you’d be condemned to hell forever if you didn’t, but because it will make all your lives better.

I’m not born again, I’m not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

Freddy Krueger, that’s my boy. He’s lean, and he’s mean. I like scary movies, and when I had my head shaved, some people thought I looked just like him.

I’ve adopted a diet that minimises high glycemic index carbs, coupled with lean protein sources and a mix of vegetables.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

It’s always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

I like to be lean. If I get too bulky I can’t move well and I like to move. When I’m not training, I get really round and soft.

I like the lean look but I also hate men who diet.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it’s the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

I have been blessed with good genes, and that’s why, irrespective of how much I eat, I still retain my lean look.

I’m lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it’s funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.

Yung Lean is like water: he’s always changing due to the temperature, how he’s feeling.

I enjoy eating fresh fruits, salads, lean protein, leafy vegetables, brown rice/brown bread and eggless cakes.

I’ve been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general – the opposite for the Democrat.

I review all the riders for my music clients and make sure there’s healthy food and snack options, like strained yogurt, fresh berries, and lean protein.

During ‘Race 2,’ I had to lean down completely because there was a lot of action scenes in it.

I was feeling ‘Lean & Bop’ in the moment. It’s brought me the most money. And when I’m doing shows, it goes off.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

A ‘healthy diet’ includes meals rich in whole grains, vegetables, nuts and fruits. Lean protein such as fish and chicken are recommended, and processed meats, such as bologna or cured ham and bacon, should be avoided.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

If I lean towards one particular party, people would not enjoy my comedy. Also, to enter politics, I should first leave cinema completely.

I have a lot of kurtas and Rajasthani-patterned clothes. So I really wanted to do something with an Indian flavour. Shooting the video for ‘Lean On’ was like a dream come true for me.

There are certain things you can talk to a partner about and it’s someone to lean on. But I refuse to get into a relationship just for the sake of comfort.

There’s been some people I’ve overheard talking about ‘Mindhunter.’ I’ll lean in and say, ‘Hey, I haven‘t seen it yet. Is it any good?’ And they’ll say, ‘Yeah, you should go check it out.’

My resume is lean enough that I don’t have the added baggage that is not necessary to be able to be successful in government.

Let’s face it, not everyone is going to have long and lean legs. But everyone can have legs that look long and lean for their body type with the right exercises.

I like to be lean and flexible. I’m not interested in gaining size.

I do have my cheat meals. I have Oreos inside the house right now, and I have beer and fried chicken and waffles. All that good stuff. But once it comes down to when I really want to get in shape and get lean, I’ll eat clean and go with whole foods.

The Lean Startup process builds new ventures more efficiently. It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses, and agile engineering to build minimum viable products.

In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that’s where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.

As a general rule, the more precious the chips you’d consider betting, the more you should lean toward playing it safe. Check it down; cautious play is usually the recipe for long-term success in poker.

I’m naturally lean and I’m constantly walking.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

With more and more stress from work, at times I really do hope to have someone I can lean upon.

I’ve been busy and not busy, and busy is better. I’ve been busy, but I went through a lot of periods where it was lean for a lot of times.

I try to keep my routine as consistent as possible. I try to lift every single day. It’s not powerlifting. It’s not lifting to become the strongest man in the world. It’s lifting just to stay in shape. Stay lean. Stay injury free.

I encourage girls to lean in, use your brain, get in there, get in the conversation.

The best compliment we ever got about the show was from a Korean veteran who was unable to talk about his war experience with his wife until ‘M*A*S*H.’ While watching the show, he was able to lean over to his wife and say, ‘See, honey, that’s the way it was.’

I look at a lot of shows. I look at a really broad spectrum; I look at everything from David Lean to Lina Wertmuller. I look at a really unique and very arty spectrum.

Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that’s how I make my choices.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely – it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It’s where I feel most like myself – on stage singing.

I learned that you lean into your family, ask for help, and show compassion.

When there’s an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that’s what makes you lean forward.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

One of the reasons I wanted to make ‘Lean on Pete’ was that it wasn’t about identity. For me, it’s about something more essential underneath: the need to have somewhere to live, to be safe, and have someone to look after you.

You don’t need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

No art is any good unless you can feel how it’s put together. By and large it’s the eye, the hand and if it’s any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist’s body; you can really lean on it.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

I speak to Matt Ritchie a lot, he’s someone I lean on in the squad. He tends to keep us grounded and he’s always there with good bits of advice.

For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

Everyone has different interests, but instead of constructive learning, people generally tend to lean towards the negative… and I think social media has somehow given fuel to this kind of thinking.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing – good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that.

Sometimes, when I’m doing an interview, my delivery or my take on a story may lean a little feminine, depending on the story, but it’s never intentional.

I eat a lot of Greek yogurt with honey, a lot of lean protein, vegetables.

I bought some pork chops and told the butcher to make them lean. He said, ‘Which way?’

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

I think we’re always scared, but we have each other to lean on, so we’re not being extremely vulnerable in front of the world by ourselves. We have each other.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

My diet is pretty clean. I am not a morning person so I force myself to eat breakfast. I love a bowl of fruit with granola sprinkled on top and a splash of soymilk. I eat a lot of lean meats like turkey and chicken.

TV‘s job is to make you lean in, and a film’s job is to make you lean back.

I think there’s a huge gap between no longer qualifying for benefits and being able to afford a life without benefits. When I went off government assistance – six months before I got the book deal – there were some months that were lean, I mean literally lean, like I lost a lot of weight. I could barely afford food.

We all need to lean on God but we also need to lean on each other and be encouraging to one another.

To be a great band it’s like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player‘s in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player‘s coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

My voice is obviously real southern – I automatically lean country.

I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it’s not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I’m grateful for that.

I’m in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that’s usually where I lean anyway… I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.

Those years between drama school and getting onto the stand-up circuit were pretty lean.

I’m fortunate in that I’m a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I’ve been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won’t be bulky.

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean fish, and I feel great!

I tended to lean towards the guys who both sang and played, such as Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Steve Wariner… And at the other end of the spectrum, I had Eric Clapton in a rock and blues sense, jazz guys such as Tal Farlow and Les Paul… Then Chet Atkins-type stuff.

I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.

The Lean Startup is a process for turning ideas into commercial ventures. Its premise is that startups begin with a series of untested hypotheses. They succeed by getting out of the building, testing those hypotheses and learning by iterating and refining minimal viable products in front of potential customers.

If I am anorexic, I’d be in the hospital! I am tall. I am 5 foot 9 inches, 175 cms tall. I am lean, I am active and athletic. There are so many women who are naturally lean, and so am I. I have been like this for the longest time.

It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached to it, it’s harder to be honest.

See, I am an ardent fan of David Lean. I cannot do a shot like David Leans’ in a Malayalam film because the budget does not permit me. Those dreams, I mean the glossy dreams of mine, can be fulfilled only in Hindi films.

We’ve all seen chicken portrayed as the low-fat, heart-healthy alternative to red meat for years, but it no longer adds up. You might want to lean away from eating birds and lean toward more plant-based options of protein like black beans, lentils, tofu, chickpeas and whole grains.

My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don’t know how he finds it, but he knows how to use an iPad and he’s always online. So one day my mum said: ‘You know what, you have to make something for your little brother,’ and that’s how I made ‘Lean & Bop.’

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

The director Sofia Coppola’s new comic melodrama, ‘Lost in Translation,’ thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean’s ‘Brief Encounter,’ Richard Linklater’s ‘Before Sunrise‘ and Wong Kar-wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love.’

No carbs when I’m not working, so on Saturday and Sunday I don’t eat any carbs ‘cos I’m not burning any, I’m not working out. A high intake of fibre and salads to stay lean.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta’s perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

I guess after the whole success with ‘Lean On’ – me being introduced into this more mainstream audience – I was a little scared of being my true self, and being vulnerable and being gritty.

I think with lean cuts of chicken and beef, fish, turkey, ground beef and bison, you can’t go wrong with those.

We go through those dark times and we need someone to lean on.

I’m a lean 135er.

Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.

Your family are people you lean on and learn from. When I told my family I wanted to do music, they were really supportive.

Showing that you consistently have their best interests at heart not only motivates your people to do their best work; it also builds goodwill that you may need to draw on when the going gets tough and you have to lean on one another to find the horizon.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

From middle age on, there’s nothing more vital to your health and weight control than building lean muscle mass, and the only way that happens is with weight training and exercise.

I’ve focused on being as lean as I can.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I did want to tone up my arms. Mine have always been lean but I’ve never had any muscle tone with it because I never exercised.

Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic – including blacks, hispanics and students.

If I lean towards one particular party, people would not enjoy my comedy. Also, to enter politics, I should first leave cinema completely.

The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken – a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.

My politics are very centrist and sometimes, especially when it comes to foreign affairs, lean to the right.

Every politician goes through a lean patch during which they go back to their main area of expertise. Some return to business, some practice law, and I… have come back to cinema.

In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you’re not flying around everywhere.

One thing I’ve learned is I actually don’t like variety very much. I like having the same thing over and over: assorted lean proteins, arugula salad, quinoa or brown rice with soy sauce, olive oil, lemon, and salt. Those ingredients can pretty much get me through the week.

Joe Rogan has this podcast where he’s talking astrophysics and lean BMI indexes and weird philosophy most of the time and yet, when you see him onstage, you’re like, ‘Oh, this guy is just a killer comedian.’

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

I never met Peter O’Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia‘ is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It’s not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other.

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.

I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.

‘At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom‘ by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.

When I wrote ‘Lean In,’ some people argue that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t have a partner. They were right.

For me, it’s always been about a mix of hip-hop, acoustic singer/songwriters, and piano rock. I pull all those together. Each song may lean more heavily on one than the other, but they all have all three pieces.

I have a very close, tight group of friends. I lean on them for support and I lean on my kids and just want to be the best mom possible.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as ‘providing benefit to the customer’; anything else is waste.

I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it’s become what I’m most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.

I try to eat whatever I want. I don’t like putting myself on a diet, but I try to eat organic, healthy, and lean with lots of green vegetables.

I think it’s really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It’s happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.

I tend to lean toward a more minimal aesthetic, so when I use wallpapers in my interiors, I like for one or two prints to be the star of the show. I would recommend being careful in your use of strong prints so the room doesn’t get too busy. Use one print that dominates and one as an accent.

Building a cast is a card house. They lean on each other, provide for each other, and take from each other.

When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very high telomerase levels are now running on a lean diet of telomerase.

I still can’t believe that I went on ‘The Colbert Report‘ myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle‘s, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey – an authoress has to lean in, right?

I stay away from big chunks of carbs and try to keep it lean, even when I’m competing.

The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas.

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish – we like stories, we like telling stories, which makes a lot of us lean towards being writers or actors or directors.

It’s easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don’t boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don’t lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.