Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

Plutarch

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Brian Perry

The older they get, the harder they are to find parts for,

Pat Rafter

The way he's playing right now I think it's very hard for him to keep winning.

Joe Henderson

The water's all the way up to the roof and it's just one of those things you've never seen. It's hard to describe,

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than the standard Olympic size so it's hard to skate perfectly, but I think we did okay.

Roman Kostomarov

The rink is much smaller than standard Olympic size, so it's hard to skate perfectly. We've only had two practices at this rink before today.

Jim Haslett

This is going to be a long, hard year, ... We're going to be gypsies. We don't know where we're going to live, where we're going to stay, where we're going to be playing. But it could be worse.

Chris Hanners

This is heaven-sent for the Paints, but it is also going to make a lot of kids proud to work hard and come out here and play. The Paints are only going to use this a very small percentage of the time, and when the high schools or the Little League teams come out here to play, it's going to be very nice for them.

Ed Churchwell

This is hard to do from within the galaxy.

Ed Iacobucci

This is hard stuff. There's a lot of new science involved.

Seth Godin

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow.

Sojourner Truth

It is the mind that makes the body.

Sofia Vergara

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

John Quincy Adams

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

Norman Cousins

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Mitch Albom

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Mitch Albom

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant "divide." In truth, it comes from "divertere," which means "to divert." I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

Miguel de Cervantes

When one door is shut, another opens.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Theodore L. Cuyler

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.

Theodore Bikel

While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.

Theaster Gates

All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Margaret Sanger

Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.

Kevin VanDam

In practice in 2007 I had a limit that probably would've weighed almost 30 pounds.

Matthew Henry

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice.

Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, without it, you can practice no other.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Drew Gooden

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Drew Gooden

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

Drew Gooden

My main focus, whenever I put on a new uniform, was just to provide energy. ... There was one thing I knew I could never mess up, and that was going hard. That's what I really kind of relied on to get me through the transition period between two teams.

Drew Gooden

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

Douglas Gresham

I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and magical delight that Narnia engenders in the hearts of those who read the books to the screen in ‘The Silver Chair.’ I am very much looking forward to diving once more into Narnia, this time with Mark Gordon and his team.

Andy Kennedy

People realize that we're certainly faced with an abnormal amount of adversity. The Cincinnati faithful is still going through a healing process with what transpired with Coach Huggins in the fall. But over the 20 games they've seen this team, I think they appreciate the fact that this team continues to fight, even though they're not always happy with the result.

Andy Hertzfeld

But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Don Marquis

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

Dweezil Zappa

Well, I haven't been doing that much work with other people per se. I started doing more of that.

Dalai Lama

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work...

Dolly Parton

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.

Dolly Parton

Jump out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come alive.

Anderson Cooper

You can't stop suffering, you can't stop terrible things from happening, but you can bear witness... The least us reporters can do is go there and tell their stories.

Andrew Carnegie

The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

Andrew Carnegie

Anything in life worth having is worth working for.