Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

Clay Shirky

It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.

Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Clayton Christensen

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Daniel Kahneman

One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.

Daniel Kahneman

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Daniel Kahneman

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Clint Eastwood

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it.

Clint Eastwood

I was kind of a little disappointed when they started building a competition between Marty (Martin Scorsese) and me. I have the greatest respect for him and all the films he's done over the years.

Clint Eastwood

The main thing is, you just want to have your place in history. You hope that people will look back on it in 15, 20, 30 and beyond years, and say, "That was an exciting film."

Dylan Moran

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Dustin Pedroia

I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Chauncey Billups

I just need some reps. We haven't had much practice time.

Kelley Armstrong

He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve.

Kurt Cobain

Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Manmohan Singh

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Malcolm Wallop

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Malcolm X

They don't stand for anything different in South Africa than America stands for. The only difference is over there they preach as well as practice apartheid. America preaches freedom and practices slavery.