Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Bobby Robson

Practice makes permanent.

Diana Oblinger

While the practice is not necessarily widespread, there are a lot of them,

Richard Carlson

You are what you practice most.

Shakti Gawain

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.

Shakti Gawain

The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

Sun Myung Moon

True Love comes into being when you practice the highest possible love in the lowest possible place. There you deal with impossible people and try to raise them into the highest possible people by showing them the highest possible standard. There is where True Love can be found and can start.

Sue Gardner

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

Richard Stallman

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Claude Debussy

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Daniel Schorr

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Daniel Quinn

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Daniel Radcliffe

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Janet Jackson

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Edward Norton

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Aristotle

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Author unknown

You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.

Stephen Jay Gould

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.