Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Russell Banks

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ruben Studdard

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

William Ellery Channing

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Tucker Carlson

Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies.

Tupac Shakur

I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.

Dr. Seuss

Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky!

Zig Ziglar

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

William Wilberforce

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Carl Jung

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.

Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Dawkins

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

Renzo Rosso

We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.

Russell Crowe

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Ben Romans

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Richard Holbrooke

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Truman Capote

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William McDonough

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

William J. Clinton

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

William Shatner

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.