Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Brandon Sanderson

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Brian Sandoval

I worked my way through law school.

Brendan Fehr

I never liked group work in school.

John Piper

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

Peter Drucker

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk.

John Wooden

You never want to confuse activity with accomplishment.

Iyanla Vanzant

Joy is what we are, not what we must get. Joy is the realization that all we want or need in life has been etched into our souls. Joy helps us see not what we are "going through," but what we are "growing to"-a greater sense of understanding, accomplishment, and enlightenment. Joy reveals to us the calm at the end of the storm, the peace that surpasses the momentary happiness of pleasure. If we keep our minds centered on joy, joy becomes a state of mind.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.

Grant Morrison

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Martin Filler

When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

Lesley Visser

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Troy Aikman

I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience.

Dave Barrett

I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.

David Turek

Advances at the upper reaches of high performance computing such as these often find powerful applications in the broad spectrum of government, industrial and commercial arenas. IBM 's close working relationship with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has resulted in another significant achievement with the potential to improve the lives of people everywhere.

Kofi Annan

Notwithstanding the embargo, Cuba's achievements in social development are impressive given the size of its gross domestic product per capita, ... As the human development index of the United Nations makes clear year after year, Cuba should be the envy of many other nations ostensibly far richer.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Chris Phillips

It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.