Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Tadashi Yanai

I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

Tommy Lasorda

'Pressure' is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Willard Wigan

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

Alexander Smith

Failure and success are not accidents, but the strictest justice.

Yann Martel

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Shelley Fabares

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

Dave Peterson

It would be great to have water from Tiber reservoir,

Reuben Droughns

It would be great to get that tradition back and get it going again,

Robert Gibbons

It would be great if we had the HOT to Massaponax,

Paul Farmer

It would be great if people would acknowledge that the state of Haiti was because of the resources we took away.

Jim Adkins

It would be great if it could stay in Pasadena. Part of the proceeds from the sign will go to LIPS, that's Ladies Into Purchasing Stock.

Fifi Camara

It would be great if I could play for New York. Whatever happens at this point, I'm not going to regret anything.

Willie Roaf

It would be great for me to be a part of Larry Johnson rushing for 2,000 yards, at this time in my career. That's something I never imagined being a part of, and that would be exciting.

Aurelio Rodriguez

It wouldn't be a shock if Portugal won because is a great team,

Richard McMillan

It would have been great to have Stephen here, ... It would have put Pittsburgh on the map. He's the one it was fashioned for.

Brian Tracy

Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.

Theodore Parker

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Peter Drucker

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

Marlon Wayans

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.

Marlon Brando

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

Nicolas Chamfort

Success makes success, like money makes money.

Mort Walker

It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

John Wooden

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

John Wooden

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

Ama Ata Aidoo

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Rush Limbaugh

Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.

Rush Limbaugh

If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when it's gonna be covered? That's what's happened to the health care system. Why cut costs when somebody's gonna subsidize whatever you charge. But there's another reason why tuitions are never gonna come down on major American universities, and that's because they are the training ground of American liberalism and radicalism. And they have to make jobs there attractive to the professors and the teachers who are gonna indoctrinate these young skulls full of mush.

Stephen King

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're too uptight to do that, at least do the old handshake thing, but I recommend a hug and a kiss. Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

Sam Mendes

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

Sam Keen

Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.

Sally Potter

I've always traveled with the films because I want the audience to be my teacher so that I can learn for the next one.

Ruth Wilson

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Henry Spencer

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

Dick Costolo

Apple is our mentor, Facebook is our enemy.

Edgar Friedenberg

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

Marlee Matlin

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

Aaron Levie

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

Dave Grohl

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

Billy Graham

Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Henri Bergson

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Jim Phillips

I think he's the right person at the right time in the right job.

H. G. Wells

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.