Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Viscott

People now feel time accelerating. Lists allow them to feel some sense of accomplishment.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I will always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.

Stephen R. Covey

We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.

Diablo Cody

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Denzel Washington

At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back" (23).

Laura Conigliaro

The postponement of Dell's analysts' meeting from April to September, while bound to create more uncertainty about the timing and scope of Dell's changing model, is probably a reality check on how much Dell needs to accomplish before it can feel confident about execution and results.

Al Martin

We've always been able to get consistent work habits out of our kids. Not just during the year, but during the off-season. To accomplish something like this, you have to be very consistent game in, game out. And we've developed that by working hard each and every week and respecting who we play.

Kyle Herring

We've already booked five to seven days for those activities if we decide they are necessary. We can accomplish any additional work and still meet the schedule we've laid out for July 1.

Carl Edwards

We've accomplished every goal we wanted to accomplish already, so I don't see any reason to put extra pressure on ourselves. If we just go out, have a good time, give it 100 percent effort, try to win these races, never look back, that's all we can do.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Soule

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

Charles Sturt

The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.

Charles Stanley

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Charles Spurgeon

I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

Charles Spurgeon

Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.

Charles Spurgeon

I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

Charles Spurgeon

I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.

Linda Gray

We want them to have exposure to females who have a career and a family. We want to let them know that you don't have to choose one or the other.

Ed Asner

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

David Horowitz

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

Ben Stiller

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

Bear Grylls

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

Audrey Tautou

I'm not inspired by any career because I don't have any expectations.

Antony Sher

The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.

Alan Watts

Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.

David Hilbert

Begin with the simplest examples.

Liza Minnelli

I thought maybe, just by never preaching, never doing any of that stuff because it doesn't work. By just maybe the power of example and some laughs, maybe somebody might go take a walk.

Byron Katie

Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Dick Costolo

If there's ever an example of the importance of making bold bets and focusing on what you love, it's Twitter.

Benjamin Franklin

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

Rachel Cusk

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

Joe Perry

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Sadhu Johnston

For a city, it really helps to solve a number of our problems.

Paul Nelson

It really helps to find out what kind of things you will be running into.

Liz Harrison

It really helps people get through the turbulence.

Jeff Butts

It's all right. It helps rejuvenate you. But at the same time, you want to keep working on things.

Scott Roesch

This Land Is Your Land. It helps if a film is animated, musical and political in nature. There's a piece that had all three.

Lamar Butler

They play so well together. It's like they know each other like the back of their hand. It helps us on the court. They just shut down the other team's big men. They've been doing it all season long.

Mario Bandiera

They're in the monochromatic tones of the outfits, and that helps elongate the strong, narrow line of the silhouette.

Richard Wright

They record that which helps them and not that which doesn't.

Alejo Rodriguez

It's a tribute to (White Plains) and their defense. But (the game) also helps us get more experience.

Felipe Alou

We always have big rallies when they walk him. I hope they don't stop walking him.

Charles L. Allen

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Jack Rio

We're going to keep him out this week, then hopefully get him back as quick as we can, ... This is not a season-ending injury by any means.

Jim McAlpin

We're going to have to find some different ways to score because of that, but we'll still attack. We hope to score as much as we did last year.

Bruce Allen

We're getting some more analysis. He's still on the team. He is wanting to play. We're hopeful that he can. But we're going to get the proper medical opinion.

J. Horton

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

Wayne Kramer

We're hopeful we'll be able to identify many more.

Jason Tapp

We're hopeful that a much more experienced and talented team this season will have us near or on top at the end of the regular season.

Jeff Hall

We're hopeful ... but realistically we're looking for deceased.

Jerry Conway

We're going to find seals in places they're not normally at, and where people are.

Brian Deedrick

This is a big deal. Normally this is produced around the world.

Charles Moore

It's normally between 30 and 40 (degrees latitude) north and 130 to 155 (degrees longitude) west.

Trent Dilfer

They feel so sorry for me because I am so old that I think they are playing a little better than they normally would.

Savannah Cowley

It was really low, relative to where slides normally happen.

Tom Verica

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

John Gifford

Normally you don't find 9,500 year-old wooden artifacts.

Jane Goldman

Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

Jim Shelhorse

Normally we wait and give them about two or three weeks leeway.

Lee Johnson

Teens don't want to be different, so they won't tell their peers. They know that they will not understand.

Chris Crutcher

I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

Amy Lee

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

Ally Condie

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I became conflicted in my late teens.

Andy Summers

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

Kevin Systrom

I always look toward teens on Instagram to really understand what's going on. For some reason, when you're a teen, you just understand the world better than anyone else.

Maya Angelou

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Rory Kinnear

I always loved acting - though what I did in my teens was probably more eclat than elan. But I wasn't sure about doing it professionally.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

David Ferrer

That's what tennis is all about. Anything can happen. Until the end of the match, you can't really say it's done.

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Boris Becker

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Bradley Whitford

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.