Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swami Vivekananda

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Tony Robbins

Always remember that you are bigger than the moment, you are more than anything that could ever happen to you.

Tony Robbins

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

Tony Blair

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

Tom Ridge

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Richard Branson

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Richard Branson

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Remy de Gourmont

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?

Sonia Braga

I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.

Sonia Braga

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature and cinema, from "Stand by Me" to "Blade Runner."

Rutger Hauer

I've seen attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion, I've seen moon beams glisten at the Ten hauser gate, all those memories, lost like tears in the rain...

Rupert Sheldrake

The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality...

Tony Judt

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

Tony Buzan

Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.

Tony Buzan

Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.

Tony Buzan

Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.

Northrop Frye

It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

Norman Mailer

Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.

Orison Swett Marden

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Peter So

That fountain's function is to create wealth, and more importantly it serves to block the straight road leading into the park.

Brian Robison

It's in my head even before the kick is off that I'm going to block it.

Flip Saunders

It'll be a good situation for him to get in and get a feel of things, and hopefully he'll play well and use this as kind of a building block for the next eight games.

Matt Cain

It looked out of date, like it was from the '50s. (Without students on the committee) they might have gone with the script. It seems like everybody likes the block letters now.

Kent Anderson

It's disappointing that we haven't got (the running game) going. But I can feel it in practice lately; I know we're going to get better. We noticed in the first two games that it was always one guy who didn't get his block or who let up too soon on a play. We've got to make sure everybody's blocking somebody this week. We expect it out of ourselves.

John Searle

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.