Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

We wish Pedro nothing but the best going forward both on the field and off the field, ... He pitched with every ounce of his being for the Red Sox over the course of 216 games. Some of those performances were among the most memorable in Red Sox history. Who will ever forget the 1999 All-Star game? He has earned everything that he has accomplished, including his World Series ring and his reputation as one of the greatest who ever lived.

Margaret Beckett

The public utilities and the public services are among the people who have done the most preparatory work.

Wolfgang Bernhard

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Bhagavad Gita

I am silence among the secrets, and the Self-knowledge of the knowledgeable.

Ralph Rivera

Casino games such as blackjack and poker have become wildly popular among mainstream audiences and that trend is reflected on AOL Games.

Carroll Doherty

Bush stands at a precipice. He's lost ground among independents. He seems to be starting to lose ground among his own party. And he lost the Democrats a long time ago.

Pete Sauer

Bryce and Chris are among the seven seniors that are pretty special to me because I coached them two years with the high school and two years with Bantams. So it was hard to see Bryce and Chris in street clothes for the playoffs.

Nariman Behravesh

Bush has probably made the best choice among the top contenders for the post and one that is likely to reassure financial markets.

Jeremy Heimans

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.

Jim Hall

Where I get frustrated is when we use government tax dollars to identify problems, we have developed a solution with our government tax dollars, but we have a reluctance to step in and mandate the solutions. What we lack sometimes is the political will to eliminate some of the risks that are still out there.

Susan Ward

Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at..."

Susan Ward

The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing ever did!

Peter Drucker

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

Jeffrey Tambor

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!

Gary Player

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Erich Fromm

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

Martha Stewart

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

Benjamin Rush

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.

John Cooper

You can get a great education at these schools, and that's one thing. But these kids also want to win games and be recognized. And all the great high school players want to play on Sunday.

Kris Wartelle

I think his goal is to see if there's any way to help people who lost everything.

Henry David Thoreau

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Jennie Finch

My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.

Guillermo del Toro

You need to adjust your compass to an obtainable goal.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

John Ashcroft

It is our goal to return parts of the Iraqi people's past. In doing so, we hope to return pieces of the Iraqi people's future.

Stuart Pearce

He has done well for us. Maybe his goal can spur us on to a late run to get us three more wins.

John Silvia

He'll keep up the Greenspan theme that the Fed's no. 1 goal is to keep inflation under control.

Ronaldinho

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

Anita Roddick

Being good is good business

Richard V. Allen

The single most important aspect of the Transition involves the selection of personnel to manage the transfer of responsibility. The law provides roughly ten weeks to accomplish this process.

Renee Fleming

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

Thornton Wilder

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

Thomas Nagel

I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Thomas Paine

The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

Thomas E. Mann

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

Timothy Leary

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

Thomas S. Monson

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.