Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Donaldson

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Raymond Loewy

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Ira Glass

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

Natalie Massenet

I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

Berthe Morisot

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Carrie Fisher

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Char Miller

The ambition of the mayor to get into the heart of the community is quite laudable. However, shutting off streets will do the exact opposite. If you have no way to get to Main Plaza, you have no reason to go there.

Jenny Offill

Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits.

Jason Gardener

It has always been my ambition to win a major outdoor title and that will be the plan at the Commonwealths.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Aldous Huxley

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Albert Einstein

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Albert Einstein

Play is the highest from of research.

Albert Einstein

Although words exist for the most part for the transmission of ideas, there are some which produce such violent disturbance in our feelings that the role they play in the transmission of ideas is lost in the background.

Albert Einstein

X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Alexander Ovechkin

We're going to play our game and we're going to come back and we're going to play Montreal or Tampa,

Alexander McCall Smith

My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.

Alexander Pope

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Tim Williams

If we could just run him up or see him, we could say we know where he's at, we know he's there. We could start with a battle plan.

Derrick Turnbow

All three games, I just wasn't making that good of quality pitches. Just had to battle there.

Jenny Teater

The girls showed a lot of heart at the end to get the win. We had to battle one trip down the floor at a time and win the small battles, but in the end our senior leadership helped us pull out the win.

Roberto Luongo

The game was a good workout. The last half of the first period, they were on the power play the whole 10 minutes. It was tough, but you have to battle through it.

Keith Gunther

The game played out exactly as we expected. We expected both teams to battle back and forth and they did that.

Adam Thierer

These guys are clubbing each other over the head. It's been an entertaining battle to watch and I'm not sure who's going to win.

Casey Randolph

This is our biggest win, and to do it with a pin doesn't get any better. But just getting there (Battle Creek) is never good enough. We have to reset our goals now, and we'll do that first thing tomorrow. We had three goals this year -- win a district, set the school record for wins and get to Battle Creek, and we've accomplished those.

Bill Young

This is a global war on terror, and if we don't win the battle in Iraq, where else might we win it or, where else might we have to fight it?

Yuriko Koike

This is a ground battle for reform! Let's change Japan!