Famous Quotes & Sayings

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Kathy Griffin

Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

Peter Lynch

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

Peter Straub

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Len Wein

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Julian Simon

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Sigmund Freud

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Seth Godin

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Len Wein

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Len Wein

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

Len Wein

These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.

Len Wein

I would like immortality.

Len Wein

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Len Wein

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Terry Tempest Williams

I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep.

Jonathan Lethem

You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

Chris Abani

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Richard M. Nixon

If some of my judgments were wrong--and some were wrong--they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation,

Werner Herzog

I love nature, but against my better judgment.

Rhonda Byrne

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

William Penn

Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

William Penn

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

Richard Wright

In my judgment, he really did need an attorney.

John Lambert

I just remember him having sound judgment in everything he did.

Steve Loney

I know the target on my back is bigger. If we don't play well, Judgment Day will come.