Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

John Wooden

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

Joe DiMaggio

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

Joe DiMaggio

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be a constant desire to do your very best at all times and under any circumstances.

Josh Fox

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

Paul Bloom

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

Mike Ditka

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

Kim Clijsters

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

Miley Cyrus

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Bobby Fischer

I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Clive Barker

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

Annalee Newitz

Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we can prevent a mass extinction with the science and technology we have today. We can build carbon neutral cities.

Amy Johnson

This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.

Amy Jo Martin

Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents.

Amy Ray

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Ronald Neumann

These expectations of the people will have to be met,

Luther Jackson

The status quo is dead. And that's why people are so nervous.

Kevin Cronin

The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

Joe Napoli

The state is going to have to step in and see to it these people comply, if they have to shut them down, yank licenses.

Gawain Scott

I speak for the people of the street.

Matthew Morrison

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

John Mackey

I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.

Pras Michel

I slept in the rain. My tent was stolen. I experienced how these people live.

Ryan Trecartin

I see people as being what their personality is at the moment of expression.