Top 310 Lean Quotes

Let’s take a common sense approach to school lunches, and offer our children fresh, unprocessed vegetables, fruits, and whole grains and lean protein.

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.

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

I continue to be a believer in a standard-based industry, where your lean cost structure is a huge advantage.

I just lacked discipline over a period of time. I got up to 178 or 179, but it wasn’t exactly lean, you know. I was starting to feel kind of fat. Well, I was fat.

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 don’t know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I tend to write short, brief snippets – I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

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.

I try to stay low-carb and high on lean protein. I’m lucky in that I love chicken and rice; it’s one of my favorite meals. I steam some vegetables and top them with olive oil for some flavor.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.

I was training for the N.Y.C. Marathon and was really lean and people would tell me I looked too skinny and sick and that I should go eat a cheeseburger… Those words hurt, I’m not going to lie.

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 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.

‘Catch-22’ was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.

You need to look lean. Luckily, I am not on heavier side.

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

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.

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 love making healthy lean foods delicious – that’s an art!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.’

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.

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.’

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

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

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

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 I was coming onto ‘Thrones,’ I was looking for, ‘What’s the formula here?’ There was a very David Lean kind of approach to it. It was traditional, in a way, and it was naturalistic in some respects, even though it was fantasy.

In yoga, you hold the positions, whereas in dance, you’re constantly moving, extending, reaching through the legs and arms, which helps build long, lean muscles as opposed to shorter, tighter ones.

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.

That’s what’s cool – you don’t know what your kids are gonna be drawn to or what’s gonna excite them and what’s gonna motivate them. So it’s cool to see their personalities develop and see the things that they lean toward.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 like a really natural looking body, so I’m not into muscles and looking like you just did 1,000 pull-ups and sit-ups and like you only eat lean turkey. That’s not for me. I just like people to look like people, and so I think it’s really attractive when men don’t have perfect bodies.

I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.

I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.

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

I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I’ve been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity – even better, a TV.

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 love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I’m obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus.

Donald Westlake’s lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.

A boxer’s diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

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.

We owe it to ourselves, to our families, and to the future of America to improve the quality of our daily diets, and keep America healthy and lean.

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

To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The more successful sons and daughters know when to lean on their parents – and when to go their own way. George W. Bush helped run his father’s presidential campaigns in 1988 and 1992. But in his winning campaign for governor of Texas, he never mentioned his father’s name in any of his campaign commercials.

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

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.

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

I am not going to eat something that I have been told is not good for my system, and I do what I can to eat energy food, such as lean meats, whole grains, and lots of fruit and vegetables. Without this daily habit, my body would have given up a long time ago. There is no magic pill, no magic drink, no magic food.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

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

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Every team goes through a lean patch.

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.

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

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

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

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!

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There are some things that money can’t buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.

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.

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’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’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.

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.

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

Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

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

When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.

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

For me, God is someone who takes care of me and creates good and bad phases in my life so that i can learn from them. This is why even when I am going through a lean phase, I don’t get fazed, for I believe that’s God’s way of teaching me something new.

Government must become lean and efficient and customer friendly. It must begin to pay its bills. Liberals believe this is radical and cruel. The rest of us think it is common sense.

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.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

We’re all about girl power and everything, but we cry sometimes, and we’re softies, so we can’t always be like, ‘Woo, girl power. We’re going to come dominate the boys, blah blah blah.’ That’s not always the case, which is why us girls have each other to lean on and give each other advice.

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’ve focused on being as lean as I can.

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

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.

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

The majority of my problems stem from other people’s issues, but when you’re a leader or somebody that people look to for guidance or to be a shoulder to lean on, you got to be strong enough to hold all that weight.

Mandy Sutter’s ‘Bush Meat’ triumphs in its lean prose and true dialogue, in its disarming humour, in its evocation of a family divided by sexism and racism in 1960s Nigeria.

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

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’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.

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.

When I was up in New York, the first record my parents bought me was the Terror Squad record with ‘Lean Back.’

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

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.

The ‘All My Children’ studio was near Lincoln Center, and I used to see all the ballerinas and the dancers, and I thought, I don’t want to bulk up; I want to have long, lean, toned muscles. And I found out that through Pilates, you can achieve those strong, lean dancer muscles.

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.

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.

All of the courses that run through real streets are very demanding. There is no room for error, no shoulders to lean on. If you go off the road, you’re into somebody’s shop-window or front porch.

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.’

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

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.

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.

There’s nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they’re dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you’ll care about the scare.

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 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.

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I’m just trying to stay lean and active looking.

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.

My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don’t like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food – bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit.

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

When I came to Hollywood, I would take the opportunity to get to know George Stevens or Willy Wyler or Billy Wilder or Freddie Zinnemann. David Lean I got to know, of course, in London. And David Selznick and Darryl Zanuck, not to mention Jack Warner, and Sam Goldwyn was actually very, very nice to me.

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.

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

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

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.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

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.

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

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

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

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

I think it’s just being good every single day and being there for my teammates. I know that I can’t do it alone, and they can’t do it alone, and we’ve got to lean on each other.

For lunch, I aim for a lean protein, some starch, and leafy greens, which are full of magnesium.

Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an ‘epic failure,’ and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.

I’ve had time to taste fame, but I definitely lean towards being the kind of actor where I’m happy to be able to walk down the street and go to the corner store and not get hassled.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In the real world, most criminals and powerful persons look lean and use only their mind. Only in films we see villains with a six-pack.

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

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

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.

I can’t imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot ‘Lawrence of Arabia.’

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.

My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

But I have vertigo… I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I’m about to fall.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Xerox’s innovative technology and service offerings – delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model – continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.

The only way to do everything in your life is to find awesome people to lean on so you can focus your time.

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

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

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.

I make sure to eat lots of lean protein.

Our business has been extraordinarily lean from the beginning.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let’s lean into that.

I realized that I didn’t need nearly as many calories as I’d grown accustomed to. I ate 100 to 200 calories every two hours or so, consumed healthy proteins (yogurt, lean meat, turkey jerky), and drank a gallon of water a day. And as my weight dropped, my energy soared.

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

I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.

If I were to write a sequel to ‘Lean In’ for men, I would call it ‘Make Room.’

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.

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.

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.

I keep a lot of my old baseball hats, and if you look in the hats I’ve had since I started pitching, you’ll see ‘Philippians 4:13’ written on the brim. That’s the Scripture that gets me through the day because sometimes you can’t do it all by yourself. You can’t do it on your own, so you lean on Him.

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.

It’s tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.

Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.

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.

Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 realized in myself, look, I’m a small guy. I’m never going to be 250 pounds – I’m never going to be 6’5” – but I can get as jacked and as lean as humanly possible.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if ‘playing it safe’ does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn’t do any worse.

I guess I lean toward being an optimist, as far as improving tech being good for people, but that’s not to say there are not potential downsides, and you have to stay aware of those downsides.

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.

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.

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.

In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you’re coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you’ll encounter a coyote. And they’re very lean, hungry-looking animals.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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

Hobson’s Choice’ may have been in black and white, but it was a David Lean production filmed at Shepperton with Charles Laughton in the lead. So it was a big film – and it felt like it.

The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like ’cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards.

If you’re going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don’t work.

It hasn’t been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it’s been exciting and good and I’m thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

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.

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.

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing – lean production and quite new standards of reliability – so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker’s ideal is the thin millionaires.

I think obviously the ‘Harold and Kumar’ stuff is trying to lean head first into the raunch.

With our lives and food chain set up to make us fat – I mean, you can’t drive down any highway in America and find a grapefruit – a guy needs to be smarter and more determined to get lean.

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.

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

But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.

Really, the audience’s objective is to exercise their emotions when they’re watching. They want to lean in and care.

I eat plants. I eat lean meat. I work out.

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.’

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.

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

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

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for ‘Samurai Jack,’ along with a lot of ’70s cinema.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 hate the gym, so I try to diversify my workouts with swimming and basketball. Indoors, it’s less boring than running. I do find that diet is key. I eat lots of lean protein, no soda, no fast food or fried foods, and a lot of water. But I love food and often cook.

As a man, if you lose your wife, it’s a horrible experience, especially with kids. But when one person passes away and you’re still alive, people still depend on you – that’s what you have to lean on.

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.

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.

My natural curviness means I will never be considered lean. I can be healthy, but lean – no.

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

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.

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.

The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn’t allow me to explain the success of ‘Lean In.’

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.

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

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.

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

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

As more women ‘lean in’ and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there’s another barrier to progress that hasn’t been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

There’s a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches – those same old wacky characters!

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.

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.

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.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

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.

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.

I carry too much baggage… the baggage of David Lean, Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal.

My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

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 would much rather have a couple of hundred grams of chicken in the afternoon than neck a shake. You’re better off just keeping your diet relatively lean and eating simply.

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

I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

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

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

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

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.’

I didn’t know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

In ‘Lean In,’ Sheryl Sandberg gives a frank assessment of what it will take for women to move forward as equals to men. Her book is full of sound advice and informed recommendations and marked by its positive outlook.

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.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

Everything changed after ‘Lean On.’

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day’s conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: ‘Large coffee with milk, please.’