Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

Daniel H. Pink

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity; controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity.

Charles Bukowski

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

Seth Godin

The only long-term motivation is self motivation. So hire people who are self motivated and get out of their way.

Margaret Halsey

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Max Walker

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

Matthew McConaughey

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

John Shelby Spong

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Naya Rivera

I feel like showering more than once a day or every day is such a white people thing.

Muhammad Ali

How come the Chinese can go where I can't go in America? Englishmen can come and set up a business in white America and do things I can't do.The Puerto Rican, Hawaiians, just about everybody can do more than black people and are more respected.

Muhammad Ali

Get up and say Elijah Muhammad is wrong when he says white are the devil? They have to prove they are not the devil.

Muhammad Ali

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Martin Jacques

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

Mitt Romney

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Margaret Atwood

I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.