Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Stephen Jay Gould

Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

Srikumar Rao

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Sri Aurobindo

Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.

Tim Allen

You don't know what people are really like until they're under a lot of stress.

Tiger Woods

Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement.

Tom Burke

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Tim McCarthy

With the high stress of life many people find that their mind is constantly racing. They cannot stop from thinking even during time away from work or school, when they'd like to be relaxing. Subsequently, they may also feel associated physical tension in their bodies. In this case, the mind and the body are very closely connected to the stress response.

Tim McCarthy

Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction in blood pressure, heart rate, and other stress marker indicators.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

Steve Buscemi

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.

Stone Gossard

As a songwriter, it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

Seth Godin

Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

Michelle Rodriguez

I've never really been about looking good - I'm just bad at that stuff.

Jennifer Fallon

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

James Frey

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Saul Alinsky

The establishment can accept being screwed, but not being laughed at

George White

The first attempts embraced information access and not commerce, ... The next phase was commerce, phones connected to Web sites. Now voice portals are accepting phone calls and retrieving information from Web databases, ... databases that would normally be driving Web sites.

Robert Ward

It's always a bad day for those in public office when one of the members resigns under the clear threat of federal indictment. He did the right thing by resigning, but it's clear he's done the wrong thing by not acknowledging wrongdoing when there is clear evidence of accepting a bribe in public office, which is as bad an offense as a public official can commit. It reflects on the General Assembly and all public office holders.