Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Kasem

I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Sean Covey

Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critical. I think the best way to correct behavior is to accentuate and affirm positive behavior and to ignore negative behavior. Generally speaking, there is a time to correct, of course; but my biggest advice would be, 'Affirm your child.'

Toba Beta

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently. By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

John Huarte

I separated my shoulder in practice and the three team doctors all agreed that I needed to have surgery. Ara was skeptical, so he sent me to a specialist in Chicago who told me to just leave it alone and the soreness will go away. I took his advice and it never bothered me again.

Babe Ruth

After all, there's only one aswer to be made to the young fellow who is asking constantly for advice as to how to hit. The answer is: "Pick out a good one and sock it!

Janis Joplin

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Mark Twain

There are no mistakes in life, there are only lessons to be learned: Adivce to the Youth.

Tohru Sasaki

The on-year rise in core CPI backs up our forecast of an exit from quantitative easing in April of next year, but the market's interest has shifted to the timing of an interest-rate hike.

Dean Koontz

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Coco Chanel

Material things aside, we need not advice but approval.

Tom Selleck

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

Clarence Thomas

We hold that the program , as it appears to have been structured at the time (Harper) was placed on it, differed from parole in name only, ... and affirm the (appeals court's) decision.

Dorothy Thompson

Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th

Luther Burbank

Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

John Rittman

If the church doesn't want to affirm our relationship, that's fine. What I am talking about is the civil contract of marriage.

Shaukat Aziz

I wish to affirm our total solidarity to all the countries who have suffered in these disasters and pledge to overcome the mammoth task of rehabilitation,

Jack Canfield

Remember, what you continually talk about, comes about.

George Scalise

June's numbers exceeded our expectations and affirm our forecast for a strong 2000.

Mark Pudlow

He probably overreached a bit in his attempts to get vouchers through here. It's a shame that we had to go to a six-and-a-half year court fight and now another fight in the Legislature in order to affirm the importance of public schools.

P. J. Harvey

I can only trust that he will. I assume they will look at the facts, and they will affirm what we ask to be affirmed.

Alex Haley

Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Jacques Chirac

Tempers need to cool, ... We can't have a law-free zone in the Republic. A lack of dialogue and an escalation of disrespectful behavior will lead to a dangerous situation.

Thomas Jones

We've seen a greater change in consumer behavior with this tax increase than we expected.

Paul Ellis

When I discuss the idea of SRI with clients, many will say, well, yes, I'm very interested in the environment or in scrutinizing corporate behavior more closely.

John Nash

We will not tolerate this type of behavior from any player. We will continue to demand a higher level of professionalism and personal responsibility from all of our players or we will continue to take appropriate action.

Scott Westerfeld

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

Sidney Poitier

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Nolan Bushnell

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

Margaret Mead

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

David Waters

As he put it, 'the biggest nightclub in central London'.

Daniel Yergin

Depending on what we learn in the next few days, this may be the biggest oil-supply shock since the 1970s. We are now in the days of reckoning.

Graham Nelson

The single biggest is to stop the player from getting stuck and getting bored; always think like the player as well as the designer.

Jeff Pentland

Sometimes the biggest successes aren't the guys you hear the most about.

Bobby Bragan

I've been in this game since 1937. My biggest thrill was when I was in Milwaukee and I told them I was leaving. It was the loudest ovation I ever got.

Gary Mitchell

This is probably the biggest name show we'll have all year.

Richard Colless

This is the biggest issue in perhaps the last 72 years of this club and due process has got to be adhered to.

John Harmon

This is the biggest honor I've ever had in 34 years of broadcasting baseball, ... I hadn't been there in 21 years and they still remembered me. I thought that was pretty nice.

Marcus Camby

This is the biggest game of the season. It was a far cry from the first two games. We had life.

Stephen Davis

The thing we've got to do is get better. We've got to correct our mistakes this week.

Bernadette Murphy

I've been anticipating a 7 to 10 percent correction over the next few months.

Michael Metz

This is the correction I've been talking about.

Jose Gomez

This correction streak is likely to remain for the next three sessions.

Adam Smith

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is ... that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Fabio Lara

We could see a small technical correction tomorrow. But I don't like it when we have this kind of volume with sharp falls. It shows weakness.

Neal Soss

We had a great run. After a market has had a big run, you either get a correction in price or a correction in time.

S. Hughes

This week is going to be fairly volatile, with the shortened trading week, and I would expect to see a correction over the next few weeks,

Ayinde Ubaka

We correct those two things and we'll be in the game.

Anne Thompson

This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue.

Larry Sabato

That's not quite what the critics had in mind. This is minimal change.

Kim Gordon

I don't see myself as a rock star. I don't see myself in that way. I'm interested in work that offers some sort of critical dialogue.

Johnny Knoxville

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Ian Taylor

We're at a critical stage for investment and return in UK space,

John Herrmann

The other critical thing is that the 25-basis-point rate hike in January that's been priced in is being called into question.

Mark Twain

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Ken Hitchcock

We were overwhelmed in the first ten minutes, that's my responsibility. We made critical errors on the first, second, and third goals. They fed off the energy and that lies on me.

Cate Blanchett

What I think of as a mistake might be something that does really well at the box office, so I'm my own harshest critic - as we all are, really.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Dweezil Zappa

As far as solo records, there's ten years between it. As far as other releases, there's, I don't know, four or five years between it.

Bobby Hatfield

As far as our song list... I think between the two of us knew seven songs... for the whole night... we did a lot of variations on those seven songs.

Warren Sapp

As far as me, as a teammate of mine? I love him.

Rod Thorn

As far as we were concerned, we had a good season, with a real nice run at the end. But now, things start over.

Granth Sahib

The Society of the Guru is not obtained like this, by trying to be near or far away.

Ralph Krueger

The team is mature. You're going to see that here, we've by far not reached our goals yet. We have Germany tomorrow. There's no time to sit on this. They can look back on this period for the rest of their life and they should do that with pride but they're not going to do that right now. I know that.

Mark Rey

The supporters have been far quieter than the people who have found problems with it.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Paul Busse

If you can tolerate it, the trains generally will.

Dennis Poust

Now it can't be ignored and the Legislature needs to negotiate it.

Efraim Zuroff

totally ignored by the Israeli establishment for decades.

Michael Scott

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

Rivers Cuomo

I always loved the 'L.A. Weekly.' I totally looked up to it when Weezer was starting out, and I always wanted to be in it, and they always totally ignored us!

Michael Brown

I don't mind the negative press (well, actually, I do, but I try to ignore it) but it is really wearing out the family,

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

Patrick Stump

We wanted out of it. It was the most negative thing in the world.

Donnie Yen

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

Farrah Fawcett

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

James Cornish

People look at it in a negative way. It shows things were worse than we thought they were.

Barry Mann

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Harold Stephen Black

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

Imre Lakatos

Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

Jeff Gundy

I don't want to get painted as a negative quote. I want to be positive. I'm a (glass) half-full type of guy.

John Hall

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

Brian Tracy

Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.

Arianna Huffington

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Edward Abbey

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

Alan Mulally

We were on a very positive track and this is just a sad thing for all of us,

Don Ward

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount.

Tara Kelly

There's no secrets. We have to stop them. We can't let them get on a streak.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Ray Parlour

We have to try to stop the supply to Thierry Henry, get about them and have a go ourselves.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Randy Kortokrax

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Jim Veltman

After you win, you think to yourself, 'Is it time to get out?' But I don't feel like I want to.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Rob Allison

Now it's time to really find out what we're going to do and how we're going to do it.

Curtis Sliwa

Now I'm going to have to do a lot of rope-a-dope, never go the same way at the same time to the same places,

Bill Cowher

This is not the time to relax. They've had their off time. You can't do that. It's around the corner.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Brian Andreas

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it.

Jane Hamilton

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

Jan Timman

The best reason to abolish it, in my opinion, is that everyone should deal with his time in the best way; there is no good reason why you should get half a minute extra with each move, except that it's a bit easier for the arbiter.