Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dave Barry

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Chris Christie

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging around that chamber with 99 other people, asking for a motion on the amendment in the subcommittee? Forget it...You'd watch me just walk out and walk right into the Potomac River and drown. That would be it.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Michael Gibson

Because it concerns city business and I didn't want to ...

Bill Campbell

Everything he got, he earned. The city owes him far more than he ever got from any business with it.

Atul Gawande

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice.

Amanda Palmer

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

Andie MacDowell

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

Abraham Verghese

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.

Anna Wintour

The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.

Bernie Sanders

Comcast rents modems directly to consumers, thereby competing directly with companies like Zoom. It has every reason to make Zoom modems more expensive or even to drive companies like Zoom out of business.

Brande Roderick

You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.