Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Kahneman

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Alex Thurber

To become a Premier-level partner, you have to know wireless just as well as our other technologies. Network complexity is driving the need for partners to invest in this business.

Frank Connolly

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

Bill Gates

Don't let complexity stop you.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Arlen Specter

was the complexity of a Supreme Court nomination hearing because of there are a lot of complicated issues.

Gregory Stock

Consciousness, for me, is a manifestation of complexity in biology. It's an emergent property.

Greg Boyle

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

Tom Wolfe

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

Yolanda Adams

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Tim Tebow

Before a game, you know, I can take off my helmet, run over there and spend a few moments with someone who is dealing with so much more than I've ever had to deal with and to love on them and care about them and in front of thousands and thousands of people, you know, let them know that they're more important than all of this.

Gil Gerard

It's more fun having him as everyman in the 25th Century. It is better to concentrate on what this planet will be like 500 years from now, and not be dealing with little aliens in space and all that related stuff.

Vivek Wadhwa

The most valuable lesson I learned in dealing with the ups and downs was to invest in my employees - to do all I could for them when the times were good.

Chris Matthews

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

Nigella Lawson

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

Geno Auriemma

The alternative would be that you're dealing with this thing all year long. A week she's good, a week she's bad, and back and forth. I'm hopeful that by keeping her out those two weeks that we got to the root of the problem and fixed it. But, again, we'll never know. We'll just keep our fingers crossed.

Robert Gruber

That was a surprise. I've been dealing with utility law in this state since 1973, and I can't recall an order like it.

James Mitchell

That was something in the past we just took for granted, that everybody had a way off the island. I think (Katrina) has opened up our eyes definitely and given us a different perspective on dealing with the evacuation.

Charles Ramsey

We could light this town up if we had to, but we don't intend to do that,

Rick Warren

My ultimate goal... is for you to live the life you're intended to live.

William Cohen

We intend to take down that terror network.

Hilly Kristal

We intend to stay. This is not a eulogy. There's no reason why we shouldn't come to an understanding.

Bruce Hamilton

We intend to rebuild, if it's possible, but until everything comes together, we just have to wait. I think it will be possible.

Stephen Ferguson

We intend to put this to rest today.

Sergei Lavrov

We intend to proceed without any sudden moves.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Dave Anderson

We aren't going to be running this channel, the public is going to be running it. We intend to manage it.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Arrian

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...

Xavi

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

Neon Hitch

Yes, it's my real name. I had to pull out my passport twice today to prove it.

C. S. Lewis

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Carrie Brownstein

What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.

Carrie Fisher

I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

Carl Sagan

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species.

Bethany Hamilton

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it’s my passion, my love and it’s a part of me,

Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

Bill Burr

D.C.'s always had a great scene.

Casey Wilson

The alternative comedy scene is actually pretty small, I guess.

Michael Chertoff

going to be about as ugly a scene a you can imagine.

Rutina Wesley

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Charles Dickens

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored.

Diablo Cody

It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Luke Pasqualino

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

Eva Mendes

Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.

Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.

Kevin Watkins

If this summit fails, there really is no way back.

Kofi Annan

This summit must be a summit of solutions,

Ludwig Gaines

This summit is the culmination of that suggestion.

Jose Insulza

This is not a summit about the FTAA,

Walter Bagehot

Nations touch at their summits.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Boy George

I've never felt as though I didn't belong, I just acted as though I did.

Carl Sagan

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Malala Yousafzai

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The size of my head though is pretty abnormal.

Caronica DeBose

You know, I haven't even though about it. I have not even thought about it.

Margaret Beckett

I accept, though it is with hindsight, that this is so,

George Fotenos

He doesn't weigh but 96 pounds. Even though he went 4-4 he didn't give up in any match.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.