Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Ayn Rand

It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.

Powell Clayton

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Albert Camus

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

Tom Lehrer

And we will all go together when we go. What a comforting fact that is to know. Universal bereavement, An inspiring achievement, Yes, we will all go together when we go.

Peter Drucker

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement. It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself, measures his worth, and his humanity.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is an achievement of trust.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.

Sarah Paulson

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

Wendy Wasserstein

Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.

Tyrese Gibson

When you step on the treadmill, make a commitment. Do, say, 3 miles a day. And don't get off until you finish. It doesn't matter what speed you're going. Just don't get off.

Yo-Yo Ma

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Rick Warren

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Rick Warren

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

Randy Hargrove

Renting a movie is less a commitment than going out to a movie.

Ayrton Senna

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

Amber Allison

You have to have personality and show that you are respectful and that you have responsibility and dedication to what you are doing.

Randy Schekman

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

Slavoj Zizek

The true ethical test is not only the readiness to save the victims, but also - even more, perhaps - the ruthless dedication to annihilating those who made them victims.

Preston LeMaster

Four years of hard work and dedication is finally paying off.

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

Eric Hoffer

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory..

Katie O'Brien

It takes a lot of motivation and dedication from the students and their love of music to put on the show.

Mark Victor Hansen

With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization.

Larry Wilcox

This is an example of the possible outcome of extreme prejudice and racism.

Stan Chesley

This is an example of negotiating and hard bargaining.

John Tory

This is another example of a government that has lost all respect for taxpayers.

Ken Kramer

This is the first example I can think of that gives the natural state of the coastline back to the people, rather than taking it away.

Dennis Brooks

The United Way organizations are an example of hope in what they provide.

Stan Natonek

Brandy is a good leader and a strong hitter, and she always sets a good example for her teammates. Jasmine is a great passer and our vocal floor leader while Maria is a strong server and a good hitter.

Michael Lehn

While the Finder allows the user to find out that the file is an executable ? with a right-click, for example ? many users will not do that. They just look at the icon, which can be the same typically used for innocent files.

Marine Pace

We expect our leaders to lead by example, but we do not expect them to give up their individual rights.

Ruth Benedict

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

Frank Turner

Now, students and faculty can all learn about this great writer firsthand,

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Joey Tribbiani

Colby had a good game, and that was big for him,

Joe Cunningham

Cody, he's the type of guy, no matter what, he's going to work his rear end off. He wanted to get off to a good start and might have been trying a little too hard.

Brian Divelbliss

Devin does a good job communicating and Joey is really fast, really quick. Kyle is just a good presence in the goal. We have options and we're starting all three to see what they can do. They're all good.

David Steele

Development and good conservation planning are not mutually exclusive.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robbie Williams

No matter how caned I got, I never lost sight of how much my mum means to me, and things are great between us now.

Rush Limbaugh

I want a great country. I want people happy.

Rod Stewart

Thanks for the Memory . . . The Great American Songbook Volume IV

Andre Agassi

Thank you, New York for the last 20 years. It's been a great ride.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Greg Sand

Zach Lund is one of the most talented pilots on tour right now, no question. That's why he's successful. That's what people need to realize. It's got nothing to do with him using something to help male-pattern baldness.

Brian Giles

You're not going to feel 100 percent too often. For me, I feel if I'm 80 percent, I'm going to help out and not hurt the team.

Gary Hatch

You never like losing, but I've always thought that you learn more from losses than wins. This will help us.

Vicki Crompton

You need to talk about it, because in my daughter's case, everyone was silent. No one spoke up, so there was no help for her,

Bai Ling

You have to be proud of who you are.

Asa Butterfield

I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.

Jane Garvey

We have, I am proud to say, successfully transitioned in a very uneventful way.

Britney Spears

Yes I'm a virgin and proud of it.

Dave Ramsey

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

Steve Spurrier

toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

Nancy Crowley

We were ready to go. No one had to be shown what to do, nothing had to be explained. They know what their role is. I'm very proud of the team we have in place.

Joel Guzman

We were proud of her because we raised her.

Don Rickles

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Sam Altman

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

Sam Altman

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

Mike Bossy

To be honest, no NHL team ever has called me,

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.

Brian Eno

I often work by avoidance.

Billy Connolly

Don't work out, work in.

Elisabeth Harnois

The more you work out, the more you get the energy to do it. And the more you get motivated to do it, especially when you start seeing results.

Elisabeth Harnois

Working out makes me feel good. When I don't work out for a few days, I start feeling grumpy. When I'm at the gym, it wakes me up. My spirits are higher. I just feel happier and more motivated to do things.

Viktor Yushchenko

Enough arguing: There is enough work for everybody.

Willie Randolph

Even if he comes back, he's going to have to work his way back in there. ... There's no rush. That's for sure.

David McCullough

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book.