Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Vera Wang

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.

Valentino Rossi

I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

W. Clement Stone

If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you.

Yvette Clarke

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

William C. Bryant

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.

Wilhelm Reich

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness.

Walter Savage Landor

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Yvon Chouinard

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

C. S. Lewis

You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

Steven Holl

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits,

Colin Greenwood

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.