Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xun Zi

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Ice T

We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Kate Becker

We can't let it be cut. They're just a really powerful group of people. It's going to have a ripple effect.

Scott Rudin

I love work. I love putting together a group of people who are all doing the same thing. The commonality of purpose.

Raymond Kelly

A small number of people and groups control the Democratic primary.

Bob Wright

We hadn't been on the line more than 30 minutes when we spotted our first group of seven.

Terrance Haywood

To lose all of those guys and to come back with a group of young kids, none of them having any varsity experience. And just to see where we started from, and where we're at now, it was huge.

Jeff Tageant

We have a laid back group of kids.

Phil Savage

We have a group of linebackers now and we will sort through them and see which ones serve us best.

John Bryan

We have traditionally had inspectors who really know a lot about the business. They seem to be getting the job done. And while we've seen some improvement in permits, we're still a long way from where we should be.

Steven Wood

Wholesalers had been struggling with bulging inventories through the winter and spring, ... However, plunging sales had largely thwarted their efforts. July's improvement is a welcome respite in this struggle.

John Lonski

I think this testimony is much more confident. His worry that the improvement will not be sustained is less pronounced.

Dick Bennett

We have not shown the improvement I expected.

Serhan Cevik

Whichever variable you look at, it's a big improvement.

Maureen Caddigan

Basically, his job is on the line unless we see some sort of improvement here.

Jack Rio

From '03 to '04 there was improvement, from '04 to this year there was more improvement.

David Ganey

He showed improvement all season long and that paid off with a trip to the state tournament.

Penny Circle

He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Christopher Hill

We're operating from a piece of paper now, and we'll see what we can do.

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Klein

We're just operating at a slow rate of production. We'll just resume regular work tomorrow.

Christopher Hill

What is the purpose of operating it at this point? ... The time to turn it off would be about now.

Charles Petzold

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API.

Lisa Spicer

At the operating level, I think it's very possible.

Patrick Collins

At this point, we're in the red $20,000 and that's going to have to come out of our operating budget.

Linda Todd

At this time of year, we're usually operating at 90 percent.

Christian Maher

The outlook is worse than we had hoped.

Stuart Murray

The outlook for the remainder of the year is positive.

Mark Leyner

I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic.

Thomas O'Brien

He has a young outlook on life. He's just a wonderful, wonderful role model. He's just young at heart.

Betty White

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Alan Greenspan

More uncertainty, however, surrounds the outlook for inflation,

Anna Mouglalis

My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artist. He started to do acupuncture when it wasn't so accepted. His spirit and outlook inspire me.

Aubrey Plaza

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Tim Heekin

Whether this is sustainable remains to be seen.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.