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.

Joe Monahan

He could influence the outcome of the race. If he does have any ideas he wants to see advanced, this is the time to do it.

Jon Hurst

There are still a ton of mom-and-pops out there that come up with new ideas and new niches.

Monica Procar

We make a lot of what is in here ourselves. We make the wreaths and the swags and whatever ideas that we can come up with.

Isadora Duncan

ideas and words that do not make any sense.

Rob Reiner

Harry [Shearer] and I had an idea to do a movie about rock 'n' roll from the roadies' perspective, from backstage. Then Meat Loaf came out with a movie called Roadie and we thought, "Oh, we can't do that now." So we kind of discarded the idea.

Richard Paul Evans

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Richard P. Feynman

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

Richard P. Feynman

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Richard Dawkins

I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas.

Farid Ayar

There is an enthusiasm to vote. Even in the last month we have registered one million more people,

Washington Irving

Enthusiasts soon understand each other.

Vince Lombardi

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Henry Ward Beecher

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Paul J. Meyer

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

Paulo Coelho

If we are desperate, though , if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.

Lionel Tiger

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

Katharine Hepburn

Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it?

Joan Collins

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure.