Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Spiegelman

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

Dweezil Zappa

The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of the distortion/fuzz elements.

Deepak Chopra

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Ally Sheedy

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Andrew Wiles

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

Ravi Zacharias

Truth by definition excludes.

Esther Dyson

The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

Fay Weldon

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Claire Messud

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

James Browning

We lost a genius and we lost my brother, ... You've lost a cornerstone of good, and that hurts real bad.

Albert Einstein

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Dan Brown

genius accepts genius unconditionally

Steve Wozniak

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Martin Van Buren

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

Michel Hazanavicius

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

Oscar Wilde

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Dean Smith

You should just do the right thing.

Dylan Moran

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Donald Trump

Your money should be at work at all times.

Aesop

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Albert Einstein

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently