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.

William Ellery Channing

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Richard Preston

What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

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.

William Feather

If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.

Olga Korbut

But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

Olga Korbut

Finally I almost dropped gymnastics because I couldn't live without create, and you know, and then, all public in the world start to say, we don't want to see gymnastics without Olga.

Elizabeth Taylor

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Shannon Miller

So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.

Francois Fenelon

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.

Han Xiaopeng

Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.

Svetlana khorkina

I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!

Valerie Bertinelli

Leap...and the net will follow

Warren Miller

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

Jack Welch

Shun the incremental and go for the leap.

Kandyse McClure

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

Marc Benioff

It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.

R. Robinson

We're going to see him take some leaps here.

Ian Mcewan

Love doesn't grow at a steady rate, but advances in surges, bolts, wild leaps, and this was one of those.

Adam Burish

The promise was I was going to do a Lambeau Leap into the glass, but I got so wrapped up in the moment, I didn't know what I was doing out there.

John Clarke

When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows