Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren Bennis

I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.

Will Poulter

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

Wendy Kopp

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Vivek Wadhwa

Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.

Vikram Seth

Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

Zubin Mehta

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

Yani Tseng

When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.

Colin Angle

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

Colin Baker

I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it.

William Clay Ford, Jr.

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

Steve Friedman

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

Rick Adelman

The patience at the end of the game there when Brad hit the three was terrific. We had plenty of time, we moved the ball around and they made a mistake and left Brad standing there. Then in the overtime we took control, especially when Odom fouled out.

Phillip Hilliard

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

Bruce Buck

The past three weeks, teams haven't thrown the ball his way.

Briana Evigan

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.

Don Yaeger

Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.

Neil Kinnock

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.

Richard Simmons

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

Warren Bennis

One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

William Billings

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Vivek Wadhwa

My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.

Virginia Postrel

The Internet ethos of diversity and competition runs exactly counter to uniform, gatekeeper-oriented medical culture - the technocratic philosophy of the 'one best way' embodied in our pharmaceutical regulations. On the Net, medical information is abundant, and pharmacies, domestic and foreign, operate on many different models.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Abraham Lincoln

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

Colin Angle

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

Connie Mack

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

Clive Thompson

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Alexa Von Tobel

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

Jamal Crawford

We have lost some games earlier (this season) and guys have taken it to heart and are really working on it.

Silvia Pepino

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

Frank Romero

We didn't play very well. We had been moving guys over and getting hits with runners in scoring position. We had a lot of opportunities. We have to be better with two strikes. We're not doing the things we did earlier in the year. We have some people hurt and we've played a lot of different people. We're out of sync. We have to find a way to play better.

Kent Nelson

We are having a typical fire season - it's just a few weeks earlier than normal.

Mark Vitner

We're likely to see large upward revision to earlier data, so it'll be harder for January to show a big gain.

Charlie Johnson

We actually probably should have moved him down a year earlier because when we played really good teams, people were killing us at left tackle.

Ilya Kovalchuk

Yeah, Dany scored four goals earlier for Ottawa, ... so I wanted to do the same thing.

Krishna Sitaula

We were successful in foiling the king's plans to hold municipal elections earlier this month. Now our focus will be to come up with plans to force the king to give up power he grabbed.

Kerwin Forges

We play math games, I help them with their assignments, and we just do math for about an hour. They're high-energy. They pick things up pretty quickly once you explain it to them.

Tess Gerritsen

I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.

Nassau William Senior

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

Paulo Coelho

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Joe Elliott

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

Andrew Bell

We need to explain to people what it means to be a Spartan.

Bhagavad Gita

Thus the knowledge that is more secret than the secret has been explained to you by Me. After fully reflecting on this, do as you wish.

Derrick Edmonds

We didn't come out to play, and to be honest I can't explain it. I can't understand how you can lace it up and not have any interest.

Henry Reed

It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.

Will Chase

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Colm Meaney

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.

Jamie Dixon

We played well in the first half, and we should have been up by more. Teams lose. It's how you respond, and we've always responded well.

Paul Dowe

We played well enough to win. The bounces just didn't go our way.

Willie Randolph

We played well enough to win. I'd rather win, but you can't be disappointed.

Paul Doerrfeld

We played well enough to win, but if we play one of the top teams in the state tonight, we're not even close.

Jose Theodore

We played well defensively and we waited for our chances. That's how we're going to have success and that's the way we have to play at home.

Amy Newman

We played well, but we could have still done better,

Aaron Bender

We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rafael Nadal

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

Dallas Roberts

I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

Paul Weller

Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

Trent Reznor

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

Alexa Vega

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

Alexander Payne

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Stephanie March

We did well in the first half, but it's about the end product, ... We're playing together as a team.

Bikram Choudhury

Growing up in Bombay, I saw many sick people.

Nancy Grace

I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

Bethany Mota

One day I was in the grocery store, and I saw raspberries, and I was like, 'Oh, I can make a lip stain out of that.'

Sarah Hall

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women.

Cate Blanchett

I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.

Ileana LiMarzi

When the victim was in the car, she saw some narcotics paraphernalia.

Louise Post

I saw Styx in sixth grade. I loved Tommy Shaw. I got sneakers like him - he wore these tan Nikes.

Mike Martz

We didn't play well. I know what happened; you all know what happened. You saw it. A good, old-fashioned whipping is what we took.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

David Aebischer

Usually, you should win these games. Somehow right now, we are a little short.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Eliot Spitzer

Somehow the vitality of New York state has been sapped.

Herman Frazier

For the most part, they have really been our bank. They have been the ones to step up and support us when we somehow get to downfalls.

Patrick Sparks

We play two top-10 teams (this) week. It's in our hands.

Richard Corso

We play more of a team offense. She's not going to know who's going to go off.

Kerry Loughran

We play a team game. That?s how we win championships.

Camelia Sams

We play a lot of tough teams out of the district. It's tough, but we need the practice.

Matt Gordon

We did what we had to do to win. They (Lincoln) are a tough team - they play real hard. I give them credit.

Jonathan Toews

When you see him up close, you see all the little things he does and as a teammate it is appreciated.

Dick Cheney

President Bush gave me a tremendous opportunity to serve as the vice president. I enjoyed very much having the opportunity to be a part of his team. He told me at the outset, he wanted me to sign on to be a part of his team - and he was true to his word, kept it. He was tough. He was decisive. He was also a pretty good politician.

Romeo Crennel

We still have a long way to go, ... We're going to be competitive with this team at some point. When that is, I don't know.

Mark Teixeira

We still feel like this is a team that can compete. Unfortunately, this was our start, and we've got to turn it around.

Alan Cohen

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Peter Diamandis

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

Giselle Davies

Today we have a totally different and accountable system.

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Monty Python

Well she turned me into a newt!""A newt?""I got better...

Dave Orlandini

We've turned the corner. We still have a long way to go, but at least we can see the road. Before we couldn't even see the road.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.

Haven Herrin

We were turned away yesterday, and we heeded that, but today, we will not be deterred.

John Dulles

Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.