Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Davidson

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Doug Muzzio

I think voters are expecting a competent mayor, somebody who can get things done and get them done fairly. We're in sort of a post-party politics period here, where the traditional tribal politics are being replaced by a competency model.

Carlos Fernandez

He loves to fly and, from what I understand, flies very well and is a very competent pilot.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If the next generation is to face the future with zest and self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as well as competent

Kathleen Tierney

The big question in everybody's mind is whether entities that proved themselves incompetent to handle Hurricane Katrina can become competent by the summer of 2006. So far, we've seen no evidence of that.

Lauren Willig

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.

Leon Jaworski

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

Paul Thomas Anderson

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Wayne Blanton

All of those things that get competent teachers into schools, we're supportive of.

Rob Oertel

It can be a little slow, and it's not the most popular sport in America. People aren't educated enough about it.

Gordon Taylor

We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink.

George Edwards

Historical plaques provide a personal snapshot of Wilmington and its people. The purpose is to educate the public and provide historical insight.

William Channing

It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.

Rick Harris

Whatever it is, it's pretty much an educated guess. That's like saying, 'How many illegal moonshine stills are there in Alabama?' Nobody really knows for sure.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a meance to society.

Gary Turner

I thought, we need to educate people and teach them how to fish. It just seemed natural.

Bill Waye

It is not that they are not needed and it is not that they are not valuable. Our legal mission, and what we are required to do, is to educate kids from kindergarten through 12th grade, and when we can go outside that within our financial strengths I think it is OK to do that.

Bill Ritter

Had Referendum C not passed we could have been one of the first states to get to a place where we provided no state money to higher ed. We need to educate a workforce long before university.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Melissa Rivers

He could spit in your face and you'd still say, 'Take me here, take me now!'

Phil Garner

He didn't go to his mouth on the mound. He was simply sweating profusely on his face and was wiping it away.

Virginia Pearce

He can say some things from the pulpit that he can't say face to face.

Freddy Sanchez

Heck, it was an honor just to face someone like him,

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Dana Brunetti

What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

W. Somerset Maugham

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Wyclef Jean

My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.

Wyclef Jean

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

William Penn

We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Tom Fletcher

Playing My Generation and having Roger Daltrey singing with us was unbelievable.

Roberto Suro

Regardless of what happens to immigration flows, there is a huge second generation of Latinos.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

A. Hodge

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Alan Trammell

His next start would be Friday. Right now, that's up in the air.

Ken Knutson

He's going to pitch next Tuesday in Seattle (against San Diego).

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated. We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Mark Leyner

This wasn't calculated, ... We didn't sit down and think, 'In three weeks, we can sell 500,000 copies.' But Billy's original idea was a stroke of genius.

Samuel Beckett

All has not been said and never will be.

William Arthur Ward

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.

William Ralph Inge

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I really do not aim at any originality.

Andy Weir

I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.

Ray Stevens

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

William James

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

William James

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Virginia Woolf

to teach without zest is a crime.

W. Somerset Maugham

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

Laurence Olivier

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Henry Van Dyke

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

David Riesman

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Barbara Kingsolver

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.