Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

John C. Maxwell

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

Karl Popper

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."

John C. Maxwell

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

John C. Maxwell

Attitude isn’t everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

John C. Maxwell

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

John C. Maxwell

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Jim Tharp

We didn't make it compelling enough for the guys to show up. But we're hoping the women who liked the movie will bring the men out over the next week.

Mark Regev

We have every intention to bring him to trial.

Dory Previn

What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

Pete Wilson

We have a lot of guys back that have played a lot of time for the past two years. We bring a lot of experience and dedication. Kids, in the off-season, went to some different camps, which is unusual for baseball.

Jim Whitehurst

We fly people to the West and South very well now, but we don't serve the Northeast too well. To get there before, you had to either drive from these cities or you had to connect through somewhere else. This should bring in new customers.

Jill Abbott

We go early to hear the reading of names and listen for Daddy's name. Later we descend on a ramp to water ponds filled with thousands of roses. We always bring our own flowers and a note to our dad.

John Dugan

We cannot have these lower wages dragging everyone else down. We've got to bring Connecticut workers up.

Noureddine Mezni

We cannot continue to negotiate forever. Divisions in the (rebel) movements complicate the whole process and we are trying to bring the factions closer together.

Bobby Hadley

We probably had 30 or 40 campers here for the weekend. They brought their grills and were cooking out and it was good to see all the families having fun.

John Chafee

Overshadowing all has been the president's reckless, tawdry behavior, coupled with misleading statements that have undermined the dignity of the presidency, and brought about a divisive and unpleasant chapter in our history.

Tim Hudson

You know, it's a kids' game. You have to go out there and have fun and play with a lot of excitement. That's what they brought this year.

Henry Fonda

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

Kelly Doran

Unlike him, this is a decision I made on my own. It wasn't a decision brought to me by someone else.

Scottie Upshall

We came to play. Teams after long road trips ease in when they come home a little bit. But we brought our game to that next level and we're going to have to continue doing it.

Hamdi Ulukaya

I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

Dan Cleary

We didn't do what we usually do. Columbus had its legs early and they brought it to us.

Connie Brown

We had to wait two hours for fuel to be brought in (to the truck stop). And that was in Tennessee.

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Dan Bollinger

We've had trouble sealing the deal this season. We let our chance get away. They scored two with one hit in the first inning, and that was a (slap). We've had a lot of games like today's.

Randy Albano

We've had a really good run since 1999. I think we have a good chance to have a winning record, win our conference and win some games in the postseason.

Joan Bonvicini

We've had a difficult season. This was our chance to start over a little bit.

Marcus Knott

We've had a chance to watch some film on them and it's like we thought -- They're a pretty talented team. We're going to have our work cut out for us.

Mack Brown

We've had some great freshman backs, but none of them have responded like he has, ... He has a chance to be one of the great players to come through here.

Tom Slater

We've got a chance to win this series, and I think our kids will come out ready to go. We need to pitch well.

Jose Reyes

We've got a chance to play for a long time together. In this game you never know what's going to happen. It changes quickly. We want to stay focused and do our jobs.

Bobby Cremins

Coaching at Kentucky is not something you want to do for 20 years. You'd probably be dead. ... It's such a pressure cooker.

Bobby Frasor

Coach Williams from Day 1 was always preaching how good we could be. We could surprise everyone in America, all the analysts; we could be the darlings of America.

Mike Flowers

Earlier in the year, (Greenfield head) Coach (Rob Salter) gave me the role of being the dominator on the court and one of the leaders of the team. Being that, you can't ever lose your composure.

Nate Robinson

Every time Coach talks to me he says listen to the message, not how it's said. It's kinda hard to really listen to exactly what he says instead of taking it personally, trying to do everything right for him and it's not good enough. At the same time you can't look at it that way. You've got to look at it like he's trying to help you.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point that he's all business. We've got to make it so he doesn't need to do that anymore. We need to play off our own intensity instead of Coach having to throw things at us.

Marcus Ginyard

Everybody knows at that point he's all business. We've just got to make it where he's not doing that anymore, where we play off our own intensity and not what Coach is throwing at us.

Bob Sanders

Everybody knows and understands what Coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.

Jason Johnson

Trammell and (pitching coach Bob) Cluck told me after the third that they were going to take me out. And I said, 'I don't want to come out.

Abby Fennessey

We were fired up. We were ready for this game. Our coach has pushed us hard in practice to get ready.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Bill Gates

There are many years where Waterloo is the university we hire the most people from of any university in the world. Waterloo has always been in the top five every year.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Kristen Kovesdy

We weren't pushing as hard as they were. We didn't realize how hard we had to play on defense.

Dave Colley

We went hard and we really work on strategy. Then we started to taper down. We don't push the kids. They know when I'm serious that it is time to get to work.

Dawn Chriss

We had the mindset that we were going to play hard from the beginning. We were not going to get down by 20.

Jessica Collins

We women are way too hard on ourselves. I don't know who some women are dressing for, but we should be celebrating our bodies.

Brent Bartlett

We still accomplished some things, but it was hard to get intense.

Scott Walker

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Nicole Ohlde

Losing a player like her was hard because she does so much on and off the court.

Jerry Stackhouse

Last year, we had a letdown. We didn't want to work as hard as we did this season, then give it away. Now hopefully we can do what we did on the road last year.

Will Rogers

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory

Bobby Cox

Every once in a while he tries to overthrow out there. He throws 100 (mph) instead of pitching.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Rick Bayan

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

Tiki Barber

Every day is an opportunity disguised as a challenge.

Tom Harkin

[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

Tom Hanks

And then it was like, wait, you can go to college and study theater? And act in plays? This is almost a racket, you know. And then when the opportunity came along to do it professionally, I thought I'd won the lottery.

Tom Brokaw

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

Tom Clancy

Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.

Tina Fey

I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: "Man, I just floated through that one." Or: "I did that one for the money." I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do.

Tibor Fischer

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Herman Wouk

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Morris Gleitzman

Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.