Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

David Bowie

...And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds, they are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through...

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

Kekoa Paulsen

It's not surprising to learn that a landowner would take those steps. There are all kinds of issues that landowners need to be aware of -- liability, for one; health and safety.

David Bolland

This is the only development I'm aware of in the Sacramento region that utilizes recycled water.

Rita Moreno

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever

Stuart Ritter

It's a good tool that a lot of grandparents aren't aware of in estate planning.

Val McDermid

Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.

William Bennett

Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Martha Stewart

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

Carl Rogers

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Kris Wartelle

I think his goal is to see if there's any way to help people who lost everything.

Henry David Thoreau

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Jillian Michaels

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away.

Jhene Aiko

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

Jennie Finch

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

Guillermo del Toro

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

David Aebischer

I don't think the last goal was the point where things changed, ... I shouldn't have taken the two minutes, and I should have stopped more pucks.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Richard Hatch

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Amy Tan

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

Rick Nielsen

I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.

Richard Donner

If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.

Rene Redzepi

Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.

Thomas Moore

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

Thomas Paine

All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.

Thomas Paine

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.