Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

Martin Lawrence

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I've decided to stick with love.

Greg Walker

The thing that sticks out to me about him, he's our kind of player. He's a grinder.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Ben Fountain

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

Bret Harte

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

Dennis Quaid

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Joshua Reynolds

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Richard Wiles

I think it's a very powerful tool for parents as well as kids. We know in our society right now that we have some real issues with obesity ... and maybe this will be the insight that will in turn make a difference.

Walter White

Chemistry is, well technically, chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change.

Robert G. Allen

The fundamental level of success is doing the hard things first - If you go for the feared thing first, then the rest of the day is easy.

Eric Hoffer

We see through others only when we see through ourselves.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Paul Hawken

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

Paul Gauguin

One's state of mind is three-quarters of what counts, so it has to be carefully nurtured if you want to do something great and lasting.

Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Tavis Smiley

Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.