Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Rodgers

As far as standards and academics I couldn't have made a better choice. I had high expectations for her and she's exceeded those. As a representative for IVC, she's been wonderful. I think she (represents) our best foot forward.

Robert Morse

This isn't being published for the academic community, albeit the academic community is keenly interested in it. From a student and parents' perspective, to know the relative peer standings of a school is important.

Mike Bohn

The University of Colorado is a gold mine ... and we're going to work our tail off to bring a great coach to this program to match the academic standing of this institution. That will be my sole focus.

Steve Spurrier

Bobby and I come from academic schools. He comes from Furman and I come from Duke. We're academic guys.

Jennifer James

Black mothers are deciding to stay home because they want to be there when their children come home after school. They want to take a hands-on approach to their children's upbringing. Some black stay-at-home mothers are also home-schooling because they are tired of low academic achievement and racism of all sorts in the schools.

Bruce Hunter

Todd has worked extremely hard in his capacity as head coach. He worked tirelessly to recruit and train players as well as supporting those players in their academic pursuits.

Alice Hogan

While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engineering fields, we still see fewer women at the full-professor and academic leadership levels than we would expect...

Scott Cowen

While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

Herbert Greene

We've had a training program here before and we'd love to have it back. I think it's something that's in the works. It's just a matter of how you want to get it done, because that's more of an academic issue, more than an athletic issue. The administration has to say they want to have it and then you go from there.

Dora Schriro

So they, too, are attracting our staff away.

Victor Shum

These elements will keep attracting speculative elements into the market and keep a high floor for crude.

Pete Spear

Drug stores are attracting more people in buildings and not enough online.

Mike Malaise

Tom DeLay has never had any trouble attracting the big-money special interests.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Nick Parisi

It was tougher for us. Fewer bouts, and less opportunities as a freshman.

John Hall

Every year we've been aggressively pruning out the deadwood. That helps a lot. I think we've lost fewer trees in the last five years than in the five before that.

John Balas

There are a lot fewer smiles and a lot fewer laughs in this school because Jeff's not around. He was a good kid.

Robert Reich

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

Preity Zinta

I'm more grounded now. I've started doing fewer films. I've started meditating. I want to live my today because I may not have a tomorrow.

Li Yongbo

If not the 21-point scoring system, there would be fewer opportunities for the young players such as Wang Lin to come out.

Dan Fauser

Their physical size hurt us. They have more kids than we do and they wore us down. They executed well. They made fewer mistakes tonight.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Daniel H. Pink

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

Daniel H. Pink

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

We have this myth that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

Alan Dershowitz

There are many levels of truth.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Ruth Porat

Women are still not reaching the most senior levels of corporations. This is not the shortcoming of women. We're talented and smart.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Daniel Radcliffe

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

Douglas Coupland

There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level of affluence. We have entertainment. We have a relative freedom from fear. But there's nothing else.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anish Kapoor

Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

Alfred Korzybski

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Strobe Talbott

These are tough issues, ... It's a work in progress.

Cam Newton

You cannot make progress with excuses.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Thomas E. Mann

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Thomas Reed

If human progress had been merely a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia today.

Auguste Comte

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

Arthur Koestler

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Bertrand Russell

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Calvin Coolidge

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

Charles Darwin

If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.

Janet Suzman

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Hanya Yanagihara

The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary.

Democritus

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

Edward Young

Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?