Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Mobius

We were investing at this terrible time when emerging markets were all going down, some by 90-odd percent, and we are now benefiting from that, ... You had one crisis after another. You had Russia, Brazil, Thailand. We were investing in all of them.

Jefri Sirait

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

David Healy

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

Piero Fassino

Acknowledge your crisis, resign, ... and let's go to the polls.

John Bolton

This is a moment of crisis for the United Nations. If we don't get serious reform, it's going to put us in a very difficult position, It's now two months since the end of the September summit and we have essentially not made progress since that point. We've got a lot of work to do and there's not a lot of time to do it

Jacques Chirac

This is a crisis of meaning, a crisis of reference points, a crisis of identity,

Helio Ozaki

It is quite a big relief, showing that a solution to the Argentine crisis is close.

Tom Ford

The Democratic Party has an identity crisis on this issue. We need voices. We need leadership. But fear is driving them.

Reiner Klingholz

The debate only kicked off properly in Germany about two years ago, and interestingly had to do with the crisis of the social systems.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

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.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Wanda Sykes

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Chuck Jones

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

Anita Roddick

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

John Wesley

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Janet Fitch

If sinners where so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

Jane McGonigal

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Pat Cash

I see it, but I don't understand it,

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.