Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Ball

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

Al Seckel

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

Chogyam Trungpa

The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.

Chip Conley

What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?

Ed Bradley

The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

David Rockwell

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Hockney

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution...

David Brenner

We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Brennan Manning

There is an essential connection between experiencing God, loving God, and trusting God. You will trust God only as much as you love him. And you will love him to the extent you have touched him, rather that he has touched you.

Tom Wolfe

Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.

Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Only what is essential must be said.

China Chow

I used to be more glamorous.

Dee Dee Ramone

I used to be a hairdresser.

Bernard Ebbers

I used practically all the money I had available.

Chesley Sullenberger

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

Bob Saget

Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

Bing Crosby

I don`t sing anywhere as good as I used to, and I feel sincerely that it`s getting worse.

Beth Broderick

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

Diego Luna

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Dennis Miller

I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.