Best Closed Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“That's where 'T.I.P.' comes from. You've had the best day - you've closed an amazing deal or played slot machines and won the jackpot, and your food tastes better. Your drink tastes better. Music sounds better.”

“If you're grappling with punches involved, you start realizing you only use certain guards. There are 3-4 different guards that you use - half-guard, open guard, and closed guard - the majority of the time.”

“You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he'd opt to take the stairs a lot.”

“I used to run home after the pool closed in the summer to watch 'Newhart.'”

“The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices, and Congress didn't create a closed list or say that only applies to some technologies and not others. It really applies across the board. And that's why the FTC has now, for many years, been the frontline enforcer of strong privacy laws.”

“If you never take a risk at anything, how much of life stays closed to you!”

“People singing with their eyes closed is pretty funny.”

“No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.”

“I'm just now getting out of that 'cause I got pretty teeth now but I used to talk with my mouth closed... I didn't want people to see my teeth.”

“The art of thinking about nothing, you know? It's tough for me not to sit there in a dark room with your eyes closed and not think about different things. So, it's something I have to practice to get better at, but it's a good thing to do.”

“I feel like 90% of the gags in the Muppets are to do with their mouths being not quite closed. Just permanent gormlessness.”

“When I wanted to do serious work, I approached Sriram Raghavan, Tigmanshu Dhulia but unfortunately those films were way ahead of their time and didn't work out, so my options were again closed.”

“When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.”

“It's hard to sleep with both eyes closed in this business. It's a lot more mental than people think.”

“We need to work on creating a more inclusive music experience. I'm really so frustrated with going to festivals and there not being any closed captioning or interpreters.”

“I think that you need to balance a critique of feminine, patriarchal beauty ideals while simultaneously understanding how they can make you safe, and they can make you feel safe, and they can open up certain doors for you that would have been closed.”

“Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.”

“I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they've done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn't happen twice.”

“I grew up in Mill Hill. All potteries, mining. Then once Maggie Thatcher closed the pits down, it became a bit depressed.”

“I feel relief after the transfer window is closed. I got tired of reading and listening every day about me leaving or staying at Liverpool. Everyone wrote 'Dejan is here, Dejan is there,' and they knew nothing!”

“Open platforms encourage innovation. Whenever you have a closed platform, a monopoly on commerce, and all these platform rules, it stifles innovation.”

“I am not closed to any new ideas. But films are my first love.”

“I just kind of keep doing what I'm doing, keep plugging away, kind of hide behind closed doors sometimes, which is nice, kind of the way I'd like to keep it.”

“I was a very closed person before, and I wouldn't say how I felt about things, and now I've kind of opened myself up. And it's scary.”

“I am interested in relating the things we see with the things we see with our eyes closed.”

“Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.”

“The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in.”

“I've pitched in a lot of different roles in my career. I've been the middle-inning guy. I've been a lefty matchup guy. I've closed. I've kind of done a little bit of everything.”

“Especially as a goalkeeper, when you are closed down, you have to make a decision in a split second, and sometimes it is better to make the wrong one rather than wait and see what's happening.”

“The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society.”

“On my first mission, I was the spacewalk supervisor: the person that runs the spacewalk from inside the vehicle. As such, I was the one that closed the hatch when my colleagues left to work outside for six hours. And I was also the person who opens the hatch when they come back, and we repressurize.”

“We never have been closed to immigration.”

“I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten the best product because I haven't had anyone to go back and forth with and really discuss what's going on in my life, what's going on in their life. It's so important to have that connection.”

“Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.”

“I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.”

“What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.”

“That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.”

“The movie has called it closed. I'm not saying I won't ever listen to 'Les Miserables' again. But it closed the door for me. It's gone its own way.”

“If you are the best in the world, and you believe you should be fighting for a title, I think it is important to get those things out. Because a closed mouth doesn't get fed.”

“The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken.”

“I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.”

“Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.”

“When one doesn't want the limelight, but is also creative in developing whatever it is they are, then you can have two equal people that aren't competing against each other. I think when you are in the same field, it's difficult to leave it outside and not compete. Then when the doors are closed; that pervades everything.”

“I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.”

“You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.”

“I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.”

“I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.”

“So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.”

“My disability has opened way more doors than it's closed.”

“My father never played with me. I can remember my father picking me up - once. I can remember my father telling me behind a closed door that he loved me - once.”

“Sunday is the one day I keep reminding myself that I should lay around and take it easy, but because I am O.C.D. and an extreme multitasker, I find it hard to get lazy. I love Sundays for painting because it's quieter; the gallery is closed, and there are no interruptions.”

“I won't say I've closed the door on acting.”

“I don't like closed systems.”

“I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.”

“I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.”

“Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.”

“We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.”

“At most grounds you're not particularly conscious of the crowd but in Cardiff, with the roof closed against a good Welsh team, the noise is impossible to ignore. It can be loud enough to put you off your game and the Welsh undoubtedly possess some of the most passionate fans in the world.”

“The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.”

“People can say what they want, but ultimately it's me who's in my own head, and I know what I'm doing behind closed doors is the best thing.”

“Membership in the closed society of the motion-picture industry is almost never revoked for moral failings.”

“Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.”

“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”

“We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.”

“Interestingly, I'm more closed on set than I am off set. On set, I'm closed. I don't want input. I want to concentrate on what I'm doing with this other person. But outside of that, I'm open. I'm everybody's friend, unless they don't like me.”

“There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.”

“One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.”

“I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!”

“Congressional dysfunction is the logical result of closed primaries, too many gerrymandered one-party seats, and low-turnout elections.”

“We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.”

“In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.”

“Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.”

“A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.”

“Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.”

“Women have as much right as men to do whatever they want behind closed doors.”

“There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.”

“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”

“Playing a Europa League game behind closed doors was very strange.”

“Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.”

“For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.”

“I'm tired of seeing listings of programs I want to watch that aren't closed captioned. And I'm tired of looking for the symbol on the side of the video package.”

“When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.”

“I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.”

“I don't see why people are so concerned at what other people do behind closed doors or in their lives.”

“It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.”

“When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' - instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'”

“It's always been my backhand which has been the shot. I can hit with my eyes closed, you know.”

“In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.”

“The real concern for the Russians is that they're going to get closed out, that there's gong to be a new 'Iron Curtain'... for European expansion and all of its institutional forms.”

“Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.”

“We've always kind of tried to keep the mystique. We don't wanna give everybody everything. You give 'em too much, it's just white noise. When we do say something, we want it to be an event. When we go out and do things, we want it to be an event and kind of keep everything else behind closed doors.”

“The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.”

“Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.”

“If games are required to be played behind closed doors, the loss of income becomes a big factor for every club.”

“I learned quickly in the NBA that you keep one eye open at all times and one ear closed. You can't react to everything you hear or see.”

“My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.”

“From what I hear, dogfighting is a sport. It's just behind closed doors.”

“There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency.”

“There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine Line. Most of them have closed.”

“A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.”