Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard LeVine

The outstanding performance by the Investments Office in the past year has matched a record of achievement over time that has earned (Chief Investment Officer) David Swensen and his colleagues the highest possible praise and admiration from their peers,

Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

Elliott Abrams

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Dale T. Mortensen

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

Brian Thomas

We played well and to earn a berth to the state tournament is an outstanding achievement for this team. We've had an outstanding season and we deserve to be in the state tournament.

Kyle Whittingham

We prepared very well for them. I thought we would play well, but I didn't think that we would win like this. They're the 10th-ranked defense in the country and we put up over 500 yards on them. They're a very good football team and we were able to dominate them. It's quite an achievement for us.

Virginia Postrel

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami.

Virat Kohli

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Lamar Alexander

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

Wendell Berry

I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

Bill Cosby

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work.

F. Sionil Jose

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

Don Cornelius

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.

Lewis Thomas

My father was a doctor, and I admired him and got along well with him. He took me with him on house calls. We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there. I've been sure I wanted to be a doctor since I was about 12.

Kate Bernheimer

When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.

William Lewis

When George first proposed the idea of moving my home and studio to Arnaudville, I didn't have to think about it for too long before I made the move - it felt right. I've loved small towns since I was a boy and had previously admired the uniqueness of Arnaudville.

Iris Apfel

There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.

Max von Sydow

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Warren Bennis

Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

Wentworth Miller

I wanted to be involved in TV and film in some capacity, so a compromise, because acting seemed unrealistic, and so risky, was to get into the production side. And it was a really fortunate, smart move looking back on it, because it gave me perspective on another side of the business.

Wentworth Miller

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.

William Cameron Forbes

It looks like business, and people are much pleased.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Reddington Hewlett

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

Will Friedle

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

William Cullen Bryant

The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

Walt Mossberg

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Eric Ueland

The political will is there. The need is very real. And the urge to help constituents directly and quickly is omnipresent.

Colum McCann

Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

Lee Smith

I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.

Nancy Cartwright

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Chris Jordan

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Brian Cox

I'm 100% Celt. In fact, I'm directly related to the progenitor of the high kings of Ireland, Niall of the Nine Hostages.

Amado Boudou

Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.

Wassily Kandinsky

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Mark Zuckerberg

I actually don't read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

Jill Mackie

We recognize that the arbitration is going to be contentious. If we were negotiating with employees side by side with the P-I, it could make the environment there less positive.

Mark Barrett

There are not as many employees to manage,

Brian Frosh

We know the administration had a policy of telling employees that, if they resigned, they would get a neutral referral,

Gregory Jones

We need to engage our Hispanic employees to help us navigate that market.

Rosemary Haefner

When you spend several hours of the day working with someone, it's not unusual to see employees make a personal connection.

Warren County

We're losing $500,000 a day. Some 14,000 employees are displaced. So, this is a message of hope saying that we can come back, we can rebuild lives over again,

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

Lynn Dziad

We handed out leaflets to passengers, (airport) employees and retailers, and their reaction seemed to be 100 percent supportive.

Paul Lambert

We're very proud of the employees who have hung in there with us.

Brian Urig

The overtime was a good quarter for us. The girls focused up a little bit, and we were able to make some big foul shots down the stretch. That really helped us.

Anthony D'Angelo

Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

Bruce Braley

By the time I land in Iowa, I feel like my mind is more open to the reality of being back home and focusing on the problems of the people in my district.

Denise Boos

We played well in spurts. As a team, we really need to work on maintaining our focus and intensity.

Tim Floyd

We probably played the way our preseason prognostications were. We're not that bad. They were really focused on defense. They didn't let us do anything.

Bridget Grall

We are not focusing on the past at all. We are only looking to what the future may hold.

Tim Martin

We had a practice on Saturday and the focus was good. I know all this is weighing on the inside, but it's not showing.

Norman Black

We had a nice streak going but we lost our focus a little bit.

Alan Cohen

As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.

Lois Frankel

We have learned who our true role models and heroes are in our society.

David Blankenhorn

We have a need for heroes as a species, you know. That is one of the distinguishing traits of humans. We have a need to have an idealized sense of who we are at our best.

Padgett Powell

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

Lee Bermejo

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.

Michael Class

The heroes of the past have something important to tell us. The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose. One person really can make a difference. Doing the right thing always matters.

Robert McClure

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve," ()

Albert Schweitzer

There are no heroes of action: only heroes of renunciation and suffering - Out of My Life and Thoughts.

Chuck Clay

Most important to me is not having the process of honoring heroes turn into a partisan process. History is too important.

William Clark

You have become role models for teams all around the world, ... and you are heroes in our community.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Kevin Dixon

I really loved it there. I very much appreciated and was honored to work there. Everyone was fantastic.

Larry Miller

The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.

Brad Thor

I am indeed honored to call him my friend.

Katie King

I won the state championship and I got nominated and that was enough for me. I always want to win, but I was just honored to be here.

Trevor Hoffman

I was honored to have that opportunity to go out and get it done,

Mark Patton

I thought I'd be an extra. Then it comes to this. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Angie Harmon

I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.

Brendon Urie

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

Cheryl Hayashi

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an old dog named Lily, and she's a black lab.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Colin Cooper

You'll have to wait and see. The team will be named on Friday.

Ron Gardenhire

That was kind of ugly. That's a little disappointing. Like I told you, that's why we haven't named our staff yet, because you never know what's going to happen.

Stanley Hauerwas

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

Andy Williams

I was named after my grandfather, and he was always called Andy. I don't like it.

Frances Townsend

We've not named them, because, frankly, they don't want to be named. They are partners and we respect that, so we're not naming them.

David Gower

As they say the sun shines on the righteous.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Lance Bass

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

Lisa Marie Presley

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

Patricia Heaton

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

Harvey Fierstein

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

Brian Eno

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

Kirsten Dunst

I don't live in the spotlight, and I don't live my life in front of the paparazzi. I live very comfortably and quietly as possible.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Venus Williams

You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.

Brittany Snow

I stay out of the sun; I'm pretty fair. I don't tan - I burn, so I stay out.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Neon Hitch

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Nigel Clough

We'd like Saul to stay with us until the end of the season.

Ed Butler

We are not going anywhere. I can stay here for months.

Ciara

I want to be one of those moms and women that when I look back, I know that I always stayed focused.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Herbie Hancock

I was trying to make something truly collaborative,

Mike Leinbach

I'm here to tell you that it really is truly better.