Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Don Yaeger

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Vince Gilligan

'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.

Judith Butler

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Noam Chomsky

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

Ken Malone

We're looking as part of our strategy for the long-term sustainability of the centers at other opportunities to raise funds.

Patrick Rothfuss

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Jess Gomez

We have to wonder if there is a true community need for another program, given the limited number of liver transplants that are performed each year in this area. If you have two centers competing for 40 to 45 patients a year, will either one get the needed volume of patients to ensure excellent outcomes?

Rick Smolan

They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.

Avery Johnson

We have three centers and none of those guys can do any cameos at small forward or point guard, so that leaves the rest of the guys. We need them to play now.

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Steve Kniley

We presume if someone comes in with the winning ticket they've signed, we presumed they've won, and unless we get a court order to the contrary, we don't get involved.

Virginia Henley

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

Lemuel K. Washburn

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Praveen Khandelwal

We had a positive interaction with Joshi for around 45 minutes and he said that any formula to stop sealing has to be within the court directive.

Elizabeth Gillies

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Suzi Babos

We didn't play the way we wanted. We had the momentum going on Friday so it was really frustrating. And it seemed to be the same problem on the other courts that lost.

Chris Heagarty

The only big races that all North Carolinians will have to judge will be our court races. And they should be interesting.

John Jones

We set a good foundation early with conditioning and weights, and we're still on it. Every drill I don't tell them it's conditioning, but all our drills are geared toward running up and down that court as fast as you can.

Evangeline Lilly

I never developed hard cartilage in my ears because I played with them since I was a baby. I can fold my ear entirely inside out, and I can put the whole thing inside itself.

David Selby

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

Nancy Gibbs

It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

Ninette de Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Eric Shinseki

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.

Caity Lotz

I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!

Don Cornelius

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Tom Chatfield

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

Tamara Taylor

I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!

Charles Hazlewood

It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.

Bobby Lamb

We plan to go for about two hours and look forward to getting a lot accomplished. We're already about halfway through spring practice, and we're pleased with the progress we've seen in several players.

Lindsay Williams

We prepared really well for this game. We have been looking forward to it all season. Last time they got a lot of points off offense rebounds and we worked on stopping that.

Troy Gentile

I am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.

Tatiana Navka

We did well for today and we're looking forward to the Olympics.

Maria Lefler

We had a nice win Saturday. We're looking forward to getting back into league.

Reggie Miller

When were on Lifetime working together, Cheryl gave me a lot of insight. It was then that I starting thinking that this was something I could do sometime down the line ... This is an opportunity I'm really looking forward to.

Paul Lancaster

When you're starting one senior and the rest underclassmen, it's something to look forward to. This year was a pleasant surprise.

David Noel

We still feel like this is a big-time game. We've been looking forward to this all season.

Wesley Clark

The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Warren Farrell

I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Chuck Palahniuk

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Clara Bow

The more I see of men, the more I like dogs.

Edward Young

All men think all men mortal, but themselves

Donatella Versace

Women should be sure of themselves because women have a lot of capacities. We can achieve so many different things that men cannot. I think women are stronger.

Beeban Kidron

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

Bonnie Tyler

Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.

Vidya Balan

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

Walter Lippmann

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Brian Eno

Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Curt Weldon

I think Gadhafi is on the mark. And up until this point in time, I think they truly want to turn this around and become a positive player with the West after years and years of terrorism and stagnation.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

Pete Rose

No player or manager has greater respect for the umpires than I do, and I have demonstrated that over the years.

Alison Tyler

I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.

Mark Gibson

We couldn't be any more pleased with the timing of our announcement.

Mike Cavic

We could have done a lot of things better, but overall, I'm pleased with how we did.

Brad Joyner

We were just pleased to get the win.

Dr. Fukino

We are actually very pleased with the report.

Bob Bryan

We're not too pleased about it. But we'll see how it goes.

Tom Burt

We are really pleased with the judge's order,

Bob Bales

We're very, very pleased with the support from the community.

Charles Sanders

We're very pleased with what we have produced so far.

Tom Patton

We have come off a really remarkable year.

Marty Schottenheimer

The quarterback is unbelievable. Some of the throws he made, I just shook my head. He is one remarkable player.

David Brainerd

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Gail Sheehy

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

Bill Bryson

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

John Banville

I thought it was remarkable on his part to be so generous.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. That was at another level. I've seen some remarkable things before, but I've never seen anything like that.

Isaac Asimov

It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.

Fiona Shaw

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.

Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don't do anything for the money you WILL make, but instead for the SKILLS you will learn.

Robert Kiyosaki

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

William Shakespeare

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Alan Watts

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

Alan Blinder

And the maestro surely wielded the chairman's baton with extraordinary skill. His stellar record suggests that the only right answer to the age-old question of whether it is better to be lucky or good may be: both.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Susan Sontag

Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

Amisha Patel

Had I not made it big, my family would have told me to recheck my decision. Now that I am successful, there is no way. They have to accept it gracefully.

Darnell Bing

Yeah, I did (have the first score), but I try not to think about it. I just try to keep doing what I'm doing, try to be successful and come out with a victory in this game.

Ed Carlson

We have had a successful season. They came. They nested. They got through it.

Ludwig von Mises

Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Ludwig von Mises

People must learn that the accumulation of wealth by the successful conduct of business is the corollary of the improvement of their own standard of living and vice versa. They must realize that bigness in business is not an evil, but both the cause and effect of the fact that they themselves enjoy all those amenities whose enjoyment is called the “American way of life.

Ludwig von Mises

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Ludwig von Mises

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody's poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur's efforts.

Ludwig von Mises

All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Gary Shutt

We'll let them do their work and see where that takes us.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Phil Garner

We'll get that straightened out. Sometimes it takes us a while to get them on track, but we'll get them on track.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Michelle Beall

We have the chemistry, with all the talent we have we just have to put it all together.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Liz Campbell

We're really thrilled we have the talent here in the valley, now.

Calvin Trillin

I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

Denzel Washington

Talent comes from God. If you have been given some, then value it, cultivate it, work and develop it.

Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.

Edgar Degas

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

Ben Affleck

I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

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.

Rupert Grint

We always have a tutor on the set, and when we're not working we're always tutoring.

Diablo Cody

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

Yang Yang

You come. You will be very surprised. I will be there to welcome you.

Peyton Manning

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

Garrett Fort

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Francesca Lia Block

Welcome Beauty, banish fear.

Thomas Fuller

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

Stein Vaaler

We welcome this decision. We think this is fair.

Michael Grant

welcome to the FAYZ. Wherever, whenever or whyever that is