Jawbones Oakley Quotes

Tyler Oakley isn't my real name. ~ Tyler Oakley

Part of the beauty of falling in love with you is the fear you won't fall. ~ Tyler Oakley

I was going to be getting the food. ~ Colleen Oakley

There is a deep connection between technical, scientific, and artistic creativity. ~ Barbara Oakley

called her "supermodel mark" - just in case ~ Colleen Oakley

Thiss sentence contains threee errors. ~ Barbara Oakley

Complex training environments such as action video game play may actually foster brain plasticity and learning. ~ Barbara Oakley

I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos. ~ Tyler Oakley

Life goes on, and shows me to how to do it ~ Janet Oakley

The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favors the one who tries ~ Barbara Oakley

The only means by which field-grade officers can expect a promotion is combat. ~ Oakley Hall

Well, yes. I definitely consider myself to be your one that got away. ~ Tyler Oakley

Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption? ~ Oakley Hall

pushes the gearshift into park. "Speak of the ~ Colleen Oakley

I think I might not be straight. ~ Tyler Oakley

In between levels, he looked at me and asked the question that turns every boy into a man: "Wanna see some boobs?" My time had come. ~ Tyler Oakley

The biggest lie ever is that practice makes perfect. Not true - practice makes you better. ~ Barbara Oakley

I'm a casual watcher. I like to stream everything. ~ Tyler Oakley

Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love. ~ Tyler Oakley

Habit is an energy saver for us. It allows us to free our mind for other types of activities. ~ Barbara Oakley

Focused problem solving in math and science is often more effortful than focused-mode thinking involving language and people. ~ Barbara Oakley

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. ~ Annie Oakley

reading - simply reading through books or ~ Barbara Oakley

This is precisely why one significant mistake students sometimes make in learning math and science is jumping into the water before they learn to swim. ~ Barbara Oakley

it depicted the idea of recognizing your inner demons and, instead of running from them, learning to live with them. I ~ Tyler Oakley

Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory. ~ Barbara Oakley

Even if I spend every waking moment attempting to keep my life in balance, I'm going to fuck up. Having ~ Tyler Oakley

LYB NBC - which means "love ya, babe; nuts, back & critters" - the first half being pretty self-explanatory. Less obviously, "nuts, back, and critters" means watch out for crazy people, watch your back because you can't trust anyone, and don't run over any animals. ~ Tyler Oakley

Science can't explain why two specific people are magnetically drawn to each other instead of repelled. Only love can. ~ Colleen Oakley

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it. ~ Barbara Oakley

I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no doubt True Love Conquers All. ~ Oakley Hall

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing. ~ Tyler Oakley

I think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international! ~ Tyler Oakley

Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn - retrieval practice - is far more effective than simply rereading the material. ~ Barbara Oakley

Maybe all that matters is that love is a circle. Infinite. Eternal. Present, even when the person you want to be there most is absent. ~ Colleen Oakley

He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best. ~ Colleen Oakley

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ~ Ann Oakley

It's normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It's how you handle those feelings that matters. ~ Barbara Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed. ~ Tyler Oakley

My one guilty pleasure is, every airport, I will drop everything to get an airport massage at those kiosks. ~ Tyler Oakley

This is why homophobia is a terrible evil: it disguises itself as concern while it is inherently hate. ~ Tyler Oakley

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are. ~ Oakley Hall

Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made. ~ Tyler Oakley

When I was in my single digits, I was subjected to the worst torture you can possibly inflict on a child: Catholic mass. ~ Tyler Oakley

Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. ~ Ann Oakley

I knew I could make a living doing my own videos instead of making them for someone else. ~ Tyler Oakley

To me, what's really an important difference between traditional entertainment and digital - on YouTube specifically - is that people thrive when they're authentic about themselves. ~ Tyler Oakley

Einstellung effect (pronounced EYE-nshtellung). In this phenomenon, an idea you already have in mind, or your simple initial thought, prevents a better idea or solution from being found. ~ Barbara Oakley

On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone's popularity. ~ Tyler Oakley

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home. ~ Tyler Oakley

Listen, your asshole is precious. It deserves to be shown love, and that's all I'm doing. Let me live. Let your asshole live. ~ Tyler Oakley

I was taught that being myself was not only okay, but encouraged - and by being unapologetically yourself, you thrive and inspire others to thrive. ~ Tyler Oakley

I feel like everybody, whether you have one follower or a million followers, has an opportunity to either positively or negatively affect people. ~ Tyler Oakley

I really like Nick Jonas. I think he is super-cute, handsome and talented. ~ Tyler Oakley

So I can't explain why, for the next twenty minutes, I stand at the window quietly willing him with my mind to come inside and erase the distance between us. ~ Colleen Oakley

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ~ Ann Oakley

Three things that always bring a smile to my face: making guacamole for my friends, getting pedicures with my mom, exploring an airport I've never been in. ~ Tyler Oakley

If you don't make a point of repeating what you want to remember, your "metabolic vampires" can suck away the neural pattern related to that memory before it can strengthen and solidify. ~ Barbara Oakley

For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work. ~ Annie Oakley

For the walk of shame the next morning, I had to run two miles in flip-flops to make it back to the car pool to go donate plasma. University was an interesting time. ~ Tyler Oakley

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should! ~ Sundra Oakley

This approach [solving easiest problems first, during the test] works for some people, mostly because anything works for some people. ~ Barbara Oakley

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed inthe knowledge and use of firarms may find that imformation and skill of great importance. ~ Annie Oakley

You want your brain to become used to the idea that just knowing how to use a particular problem-solving technique isn't enough - you also need to know when to use it. ~ Barbara Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic. ~ Tyler Oakley

I must say I'm not 100% fluent in Sign Language, but I am working on it! ~ Sundra Oakley

I can have a thousand people say the nicest things, but I'll always notice the one person who doesn't get me. ~ Tyler Oakley

I try my hardest to not let hate mail influence me - because anybody can put out hate, it takes a much stronger person to put out themselves. ~ Tyler Oakley

God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house. ~ Annie Oakley

Tyler is who I generously offer, at school, in life, on YouTube. Mathew is what my parents and siblings call me...I've always been both, and to some people I'm more than the other." (pg 4) ~ Tyler Oakley

Multitasking means that you are not able to make full, rich connections in your thinking, because the part of your brain that helps make connections is constantly being pulled away before neural connections can be firmed up. ~ Barbara Oakley

If it ain't broke, don't break it. ~ Charles Oakley

I would like to see every woman know how to handle guns as naturally as they know how to handle babies. ~ Annie Oakley

I aggressively run into things, back up into things, have no depth perception, often forget which buttons and knobs do what, and am easily distracted. But enough about my sex life! Back to my driving skills! ~ Tyler Oakley

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone. ~ Ann Oakley

I remember having 100 views on a video and being like, "I don't have a hundred friends." So that was a moment. ~ Tyler Oakley

Every relationship ends, unless one doesn't. And everything we've learned from the relationships leading up to that last one has been the training we needed to make that final one last. ~ Tyler Oakley

2015 was, like, packed from January. 2016 is simultaneously open and packed - but I'm trying to keep 2016 open as possible so I can do weird, crazy, kooky stuff. ~ Tyler Oakley

Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality. ~ Barbara Oakley

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices. ~ Tyler Oakley

If you are just yourself, that's when people start gravitating towards you because nobody else can be you except you. Be authentic, don't give up, and start today. ~ Tyler Oakley

I'm a human just like any of the people that you adore, whether they're in TV shows or movies or they're writers or YouTubers. Their lives are not perfect. ~ Tyler Oakley

My mother ... was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers. ~ Annie Oakley

again - I've realized that's what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I'm hopeful that one day I'll feel better more often than I feel worse - so ~ Colleen Oakley

A crowned queen was never treated with more reverence than I was by those whole-souled western boys ... And for seventeen long years I was just their little sister, sharing both their news of joy and sorrow from home. ~ Annie Oakley

In every community, some people will fit every stereotype, and some people will fit no stereotypes, and both are valid representations for that community. ~ Tyler Oakley

I hope you learn to love yourself for who you are and what you look like, and how you were born to be, because you are perfect in your own way. ~ Tyler Oakley

In 2016, one of the things I really hope to do is discover new talent and help develop it. Take what I've learned and what I can do and help amplify those voices. ~ Tyler Oakley

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. ~ Sundra Oakley

Over the last eight years of being on YouTube, I've seen so much progress. I think the reason for that is that a lot of young people are having open dialogue and honest conversations about social justice and human rights. ~ Tyler Oakley

There was no Twitter when I was in high school, so I can't even imagine the pressures or the expectations of pursuing likes or living life in that kind of mentality. ~ Tyler Oakley

A big reason I wanted to do a tour was because I'm from Michigan and not many things go to Michigan. Most conventions are in like London or Florida or California, and that's about it. ~ Tyler Oakley

All the money that's donated to the Trevor Project provides resources that directly affect the youth that actually watch my videos. It's a cool thing to see them basically provide resources for each other. ~ Tyler Oakley

After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born. ~ Annie Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience. ~ Tyler Oakley

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain. ~ Tyler Oakley

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. ~ Kenneth Oakley

Nowadays, if somebody in America is feeling alone and wants to find a coming out story, they just search 'coming out,' and they'll find millions of first-person examples of people telling their story. ~ Tyler Oakley

Cussing your daddy when he is crippled so he can't beat your teeth down your throat for it. Well, it is sire and dam in a man like a horse, and no way to get yourself a boy without there is half woman in him. ~ Oakley Hall

Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. ~ Annie Oakley