Famous Quotes & Sayings

Le Corbusier

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

Herbert Hoover

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

Alan Cohen

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.

Walter Benjamin

People think that in order for something to work, it has to be complicated, but a lot of times the opposite is true. We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

Wayne Gretzky

We need toughness. We're not tough enough. It is a simple fact.

Louise Hay

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back

Ludwig von Mises

Notwithstanding all the passionate fulminations of the spokesmen of governments, the inevitable consequences of inflationism and expansionism...are coming to pass. And then, very late indeed, even simple people will discover that Keynes did not teach us how to perform the 'miracle...of turning a stone into bread,' but the not at all miraculous procedure of eating the seed corn.

Steve Spurrier

We got to get better on defense, we got to get better on offense, we got to get better everywhere. Simple as that.

E. F. Schumacher

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Hannes Alfven

The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.

Brian Greene

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

Bum Phillips

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

Bob Semling

We'll learn from this. This will really help us. When we talk about this, and discipline and toughness and being who we are, they'll understand. We'll revert back to this game and they'll remember and this will help them down the stretch.

Lisa Fernandez

You learn discipline, about preparation, teamwork and succeeding.

Martin Biron

You do have to play better. In the playoffs it's going to be a different game; you're only going to score two or three a game because teams are going to shut it down. Discipline will be at a different level, so you won't get as many power-play opportunities, so we have to be better.

Mark Shapiro

You do everything you can to discipline yourself not to evaluate.

Ben Braun

When you're entrenched in principles, you're not thinking about streaks or standings. Staying in the present does take discipline and focus.

Robert Kiyosaki

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Alan Perlis

There is no such thing as a free variable.

Bill Parcells

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

Luc de Clapiers

Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.

Feist

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Laurel Clark

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Terence McKenna

Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

Robert A. Heinlein

In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

Garrett Hardin

Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

Ambrose Bierce

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.