Loosen Quotations

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critics say, because I think that critics care about what fans think of them, too, so there's a little bit of a refraction there, through that glass.

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character.

We believe that's going to significantly loosen up imports of Mexican cement, which I think will help not only with construction of hurricane-ravaged parts of the gulf, but also the South and Southeast both with supply and pricing.

We're going to get them in and have them swim tomorrow. We have to have them loosen down after swimming hard for two days. We have to start to get them ready for state.

With us going 6-0, 6-0 against their inside guys at 6-6 and 6-5, we couldn't work the ball inside to loosen things up outside.

We're playing good defense right now. But, the main thing is that we've been shooting the ball a lot better than we had been. The last two games I think we hit 15 threes (and) that helps loosen things up inside. We have to have an inside presence in order to get open shots outside against Sioux Falls.

We're just trying to loosen them up and get them excited about the test tomorrow.

The plan was to get them off us a little bit. We wanted to stretch the field a little bit, loosen them up, and then start getting the run going.

Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

Loosen up people. Take the suit and tie off and loosen up.

Leaving the floor with a 31-30 halftime lead was big for us. We seemed to loosen up after that. We were patient offensively and that helped. We were able to cut and drive toward the basket. That freed up the perimeter.

She couldn't even work through it. She'd try to loosen up and stretch it out, but couldn't. And no question, her numbers would be even better.

(One game) we have looked like a finesse team, a passing team, run it here and there. And the next time we just flat out ran it and didn't even do anything to try and loosen the perimeter.

My hands loosen up. My hands use to be so stiff. They loosen up. He's very good.

Maybe he wasn't trying to wreck me, but he was definitely trying to loosen me up to get a spot.

I was going to give it a try. If (it didn't loosen up), I was going to sit down. He beat me to it.

I'd like to see us at practice step it up a little more. Our confidence should be better and when your confidence is high, you should loosen up and play better.

I am telling people loosen your ties, fire up the coffee pots, get ready for the weekend, ... We've got a lot of work to do.

Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Dont take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

I felt like, looking at the season to this point, we probably haven't taken enough shots downfield to loosen things up,

I felt a little twinge in the groin. I tried playing with it to see if the groin would loosen up, and it didn't, so I came out to prevent further damage.

If Spark had some time to loosen up, he probably would have gotten some outs. I've always said he could probably still pitch if he wanted to.

He was a pretty black-and-white guy when I hired him. I kept telling him things were not always black and white and he had to loosen up.

Hitting the jumpers helps loosen things up. Teams are giving me that shot. It worked for me tonight. They didn't double Glen as much after I made those first two jump shots.

I think that rattled us a little bit. We weren't as aggressive attacking the rim. We made some adjustments to loosen things up, but the second half turned into a perimeter game and that's not our strength.

Matt has a tendency not to loosen up at times because of the surgery. I thought he was loose when he went out there today. He got to a point that things began to tighten a bit. He felt like he couldn't let it go.

It feels good to break the ice. I think the kids will loosen up a little bit now. We've been in some tight games lately and it's nice to finally hang in there and get a win.

I wasn't sure if we were going to run the clock out or go for it. And he gave me the play. I was trying to loosen my arm up in the huddle a little bit. I just threw it up to Kevin and Kevin made a great play.

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture one day, in which we leave everything behind, shouldn't that loosen our grip on our material possessions right now?

When I took over two years ago, my feeling was that we needed to make basketball more enjoyable for the kids. We wanted to loosen up.

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

We went with four guards and did a lot of trapping. Offensively, we started to figure out their zone and wound up with some easy attempts. Jerry Jones hit a big 3 to end the first quarter, then Darrell and Desmond hit some buckets in the second quarter. That seemed to loosen us up.

We are trying hard to bounce out of this funk. That's the only way we are going to do it. We have to win one or two games, loosen up, and play with confidence.

We wanted to loosen it up, ... We knew there would be a lot of eight-in-the-box situations.

We have to make an effort to loosen up a little bit, because it's easy to tighten up when you get off to a rough start. We need to make an effort to just go out there and have fun, be ourselves and go out and play a game.

We needed to hit a couple of deep shots to loosen them up a little bit. The shots weren't falling, but we were able to hang in there with them.

There is likely to be turbulence ahead. Earnings disappointments are devastating. This is not a time to loosen the safety belts,

We were able to loosen up at halftime. I told the girls that we were going to put bigger rims out there, because we made them look small in the first half. They had a laugh, then we came out ready to play in the second half.

While mobile handsets now being marketed directly to young kids do limit the numbers that can be called, you won't catch a teenager carrying a Mickey Mouse phone, ... Nor can these phones restrict the time of day when the phone is used. Parent Patrol(TM) can be used with regular phones and the limits are easy to modify so parents can loosen the rules during summer holidays, for example, and tighten them during exam times.

You can loosen up your food in a planned way.

When you lose on the road, it sets a tone and everybody feels down. Now that we got the win, we can loosen up and just relax and play our game.

When you loosen that up, and people can drive small cars everywhere, then people will buy.

When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn't laugh, didn't loosen up, didn't seem to have a light side. I thought, well, that demure nature is what we believe of women of Old Japan, so she seemed not like a modern Japanese but from an earlier time.

We hit a couple of shots in the third to loosen us up. Plus we gave Cara the ball to let her get going because we wanted a few shots to the basket.

It was a little stiff, but it started to loosen up as the game went on. It just didn't feel right (not to play). I didn't want anybody to think I was giving up on my team, the fact that we were losing a lot of games.

It was a little stiff, but it started to loosen up as the game went on.

People seem to let their hair down a little bit and loosen their ties. And there is a lot of give and share that's going on both in front on the panels and behind.

You're right. It was loosening up until two weeks ago and then the order must have come down 'don't loosen up' and then they started all over again. They've tightened right up again.

This 2006 target is signaling they want to move back to 'neutral,' but also that they're happy to loosen policy if the economy does weaken.

They were just in boxers. And Jim would loosen his boxers and giggle, and he'd get the little boy to pull his off. And the neighbor looks across the fence and sees this 300-pound behemoth bouncing naked on the trampoline with this little boy and thinks, 'This can't be good.

They're still in the mindset. They could afford to loosen it up a bit. But they're emotionally incapable of it.

A lot of these guys have been in these type of situations before. We understand that we're not playing to our capabilities right now. We just have to all come out, loosen up, have fun and go out there and compete every night.

They don't want to grow. With the state park and Brookville Lake, it could be a gold mine. They have to loosen up and quit slandering me or there will be a lawsuit. I've done everything by the book.

It is the first cut in the base rate for two years, so this is our best chance to shake the housing market from its lethargy. Those with existing mortgages will be able to loosen their belts a little, but whether it is enough to entice more buyers to the market is open to question. We will look with interest to see how buyers respond.

I tried to loosen it up in the dugout. But I knew I blew it out.

It's all about speed and maintaining it. You loosen the mainsail going downwind and try to turn it into a spinnaker.

It's not easy to make changes like this, but we think it's better for us to break up the middle part of the schedule. We're trying to loosen it up a little bit. There are so many things to consider -- what happens to the other teams, the television contracts. It's a complicated process.

Everyone has a story to tell. You just have to loosen up and tell it.

That is very true for any walk of life and very true for my character in 'Prison Break' because he's a structural engineer. I did a little bit of reading about that. And structural engineering is the art and science of connectivity. The pieces of a building are all interdependent. My brother in the story is behind the wall and every brick in that wall represents the conspiracy that put him there. My job as his brother and as an engineer is to find that one brick and loosen it. And another and another and hopefully the whole thing will come down.

That?s all we said: Just loosen up, go out and have some fun, I?m not going to call plays.

I'm proud that my boys didn't panic after getting down early. Our defense got better and better as we struggled to loosen up and our shots started falling.

If protectionist sentiment boils over, that could be a precipitating factor for the dollar. In a dollar crash scenario, it puts the Fed in a particularly difficult spot. Do they tighten policy (raise interest rates) to attract global capital or do they loosen it to help support the economy?

I had a little bit (of tightness) going into the first start. It was okay. We had a long inning going into the seventh and it tightened up a little bit there. But it wasn't bad. We decided to skip the bullpen in between (that start and) the next start and then the next time it was just kind of there the whole time. It never seemed to go away and loosen up.

I like to always remind my dancers about ways to avoid injury. One of the basic ways to avoid injury is to always make sure to stretch and warm up your body. This will loosen up your muscles, which will help to avoid common strain injuries such as shin splints and ankle strains.

I just told them to loosen up and pass the ball, take care of it. That was the key to the second half. In transition, we were seeing the right people on the floor.

I just told Steve to loosen up and told Brian this could happen, ... I told both guys to stay alert. I wasn't really sure which direction I was going to go.

He struggled a little bit this past weekend, he couldn't get the jump off because he stepped over the board just a little bit. That's not a problem he usually has. He'll be more eager this weekend because he's a little mad at himself. We'll want to be a little conservative on his first jump and loosen up the following jumps.

He's one of my best friends on the team, and we hang out all the time, so I know how excited he gets, ... Most people wouldn't know that because he's one of those guys who you have to know pretty well to get him to loosen up.

Come on, Sandy, baby, loosen up. You're too tight.

I believe a military strike would consolidate the hold of the Islamic government, not loosen it.

This is much more informal, ... The candidates will be seated, addressing the same questions. This is the first time this has been done in a presidential debate. We've been trying to get this done for a long time. It's been used extensively in other debates, and I think it will loosen up the conversation.

The frog started to loosen last week and shed during the gallop, ... the cushion between the two heels on the foot that is like a shock absorber. It?s the first thing that meets the ground.

The frog started to loosen last week and shed during the gallop.

Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.