Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toshihiko Fukui

Asset price fluctuations have important implications for promoting more efficient resource allocations and achieving sustained growth in the long run.

Neil Watkins

As world leaders gather in New York, we are still decades away from meeting the modest Millennium Development Goals to halve extreme poverty. A critical tool for achieving these goals is debt cancellation. A recent study by U.K. charities found that at least 62 low-income nations would require full debt cancellation -- in addition to more aid and trade justice -- as a first step towards achieving the goals.

Gail Richards

As women, we're generally faced with the challenges of living, including having a family, a career and pressing issues that sometimes keeps us from moving forward and achieving our dreams.

Bob Slaughter

The most effective means of achieving this goal is continued reliance on market mechanisms, not price regulation.

Sandra Cusack

It seems to us that people are really healthiest, and happiest, when setting goals and achieving them, and it's a process that has to be ongoing in life.

Allison Feaster

Although, it's under tragic circumstances I'm here, I just hope this will be able to motivate Tykala to keep working hard in achieving her goals,

Sanjay

This award re-affirms our execution strategy of achieving significant success in a highly competitive Indian telecom market and then taking our packet-aware optical transport products to international markets,

Ginni Rometty

For CEOs today, it's all about achieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models, process, culture and management.

Sam Allardyce

You don't want to waste knocking the cup holders out, certainly not in the next round. We put so much effort into achieving that feat and want to go as far as we possibly can in the competition.

Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Cass McCombs

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Tyler Cowen

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

Christine Burdick

Whether you have extreme artistic knowledge or not, it's going to be something that everyone can appreciate. Who can't enjoy pretty lights?

James Bailey

What he did in the artistic field is what a lot of Japan's top name manufacturers did in their field.

P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

Sivamani

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Shaan

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

George Crumb

An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Douglas Carter Beane

Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.

Brian Deedrick

This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Charles Dickens

The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence may teach us how to weave fresh garlands for the graves of those we loved: may purify our thoughts, and bear down before it old enmity and hatred; but beneath all this, there lingers, in the least reflective mind, a vague and half-formed consciousness of having held such feelings long before, in some remote and distant time, which calls up solemn thoughts of distant times to come, and bends down pride and worldliness beneath it.

Charles Dickens

All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.

Charles Dickens

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Charles Dickens

In love of home, the love of country has its rise.

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has the right to say to his country

Charles Stewart Parnell

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Sturt

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Alan Paton

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

Alan Moore

In countries like the U.S. and Great Britain, we exist in a wholly sexualized culture, where everything from cars to snack food are sold with a healthy slathering of sex to make them more commercially appealing.

Edith Wharton

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Paul Clarke

The outcome helps us fulfill our duty of providing maximum returns on our investments to fund the work of the church.

Kevin Chambers

There is no process for regular review of local issuing authorities. If someone just stops performing that duty, we'd have no way of knowing that.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.

Leith Kubba

It is the duty of the government to provide security for the judicial system while at the same time respecting its independence,

Atharva Veda

It is the duty of learned ones to ensure that the tribe of noble people keeps on growing. This they can do by means of proper guidance and tutelage.

Annette Lu

It is the duty of all local officials to stay as prepared as possible for the typhoon,

Geoffrey Fieger

This lawsuit is about duty, this lawsuit is about accountability, this lawsuit is about responsibility.

Pete Piringer

They're actually going to relieve some of the New Orleans firefighters who have been on duty since the storm hit.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Alan Rickman

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

Alan Alda

When I started out as an actor, I thought, Here's what I have to say; how shall I say it? I began to understand that what I do in the scene is not as important as what happens between me and the other person. And listening is what lets it happen. It's almost always the other person who causes you to say what you say next. You don't have to figure out how you'll say it. You have to listen so simply, so innocently, that the other person brings about a change in you that makes you say it and informs the way you say it.

Denis Waitley

Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.

Ben Mitchell

Why should you listen to any of us?

Bill Watterson

I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

Fred Baker

When we had 3,000-person meetings, a lot of the people were not there to work on things. The meetings that we have are smaller. The mailing lists are more contained, and the work is actually proceeding better.

David Parrish

When we got down to a short list between the bidders, the price was similar but not identical,

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Jose Andres Puerta

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

Alice Childress

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Abdul Jalil

They need to protect the militants in their own fold.

Leon Russell

There is very little you can protect in a situation like this,

Richard Falkenrath

There was a lot of jockeying at the time to try and protect turf.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Bruce Schneier

Sounds like a protection racket, doesn't it? ... It is a protection racket.

Charles Spurgeon

Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.

Kurt Vonnegut

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.

Bertrand Russell

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

Charlotte Bronte

But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved.

Chanakya

Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment.

Charles Mackay

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Bill McCollum

There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.

Bryan Stevenson

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

Cesare Beccaria

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment

Alan Ball

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

David Hilbert

A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.

David Douglas

Have the models been successful in predicting anything? They, of course, predict substantial global warming. This is not surprising given the expressed belief of some of the model builders in the global warming Hypothesis and the many parameters in the model that need to be introduced. However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

David Brenner

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Ben Stiller

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Honestly, it's very satisfying, and I'm very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been. It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying now.

Armstrong Williams

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

Armstrong Williams

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.