Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clayton Christensen

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

Clayton Christensen

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

Daniel Kahneman

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty.

Daniel Kahneman

Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

Daniel Kahneman

Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed.

Daniel Kahneman

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

D. A. Carson

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

D. H. Lawrence

She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

Conrad Black

While few judges or prosecutors would be afraid to exercise their perfectly legitimate discretion in favour of an ordinary man, not to mention a minority group member, most would be terrified to exercise the same discretion for someone politically, financially or socially powerful.

Raquel Welch

People do stop me and talk to me about something they saw that they loved. It is very satisfying, but I have my own opinions.

James Nesbitt

People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

Phyllis Pedrizzetti

People don't want to work that hard. You can't just take over. You have to start your own business. It's not like starting a 7-Eleven.

Cindy Mannes

People don't want to tell you they have them.

Gary Shaw

People don't want to come in. They feel they're unsafe in the shopping area.

Lucy Ivins

People don't want to be managed, they want to be led.

Josh Homme

People don't want their actors acting like musicians.

CeeLo Green

People have always questioned, Was I crazy? And I'm like, 'No, I'm not crazy. I'm just totally committed.'

Asif Kapadia

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

William Hazlitt

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

Zig Ziglar

Action often precedes the feeling.

Aamir Khan

rightwing in India started whipping up negative feelings.

Jim Sinclair

I'm very worried about the feelings we're getting right now from this government. I worry the government has not learned its lesson.

John Abraham

I have no hard feelings about them signing Ty. It's their money and they do what they want to do with it. It has nothing to do with me. I'm a different type of player, play a different position.

Milan Kundera

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.