Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

For me, the most important thing that I have to accomplish is to be a good father. That's the most difficult challenge of my life. That's the most important thing for me, more than films.

Mike Krzyzewski

We weren't as good of a team last year. That team did remarkable things - they were a remarkable team to accomplish what they did.

Dan Wheeler

We can't wait for tomorrow. We're a step closer to what we're trying to accomplish here. I know nobody in this clubhouse wants to go to Atlanta. We'd like to have that day off. We're going to try to do everything we can to win tomorrow. All of our energy is going to go into tomorrow.

Chipper Jones

We don't want to go home and have everybody say that this team didn't accomplish what it should've accomplished.

Brandon Roy

When I was dreaming, this is exactly what I dreamed about, but it's tough to accomplish these things.

When people make a gift to us or pay us their tuition, or when tax dollars are appropriated to us, those who pay that money or give us that donation can rest assured that this institution is going to do everything it can to make sure their dollars will accomplish what they intended for them to accomplish -- and nothing else,

You have to hold onto your dreams and never give up. You may not accomplish what you want at a certain age. That doesn't mean it will not happen. Keep on trying.

Peter Laviolette

You have a bunch of guys from a bunch of different places, playing a bunch of different ways. You have to somehow corral them and try to bring them in as one, ... We didn't accomplish that here this week, but we did give them the information how we're going to try to do that.

You have to go back three years and all the hard times, Michael didn't want to go through another season like that. He helped our team accomplish a great deal the last two seasons. That's a testament of his ability.

The one thing we are asked to address most (by our members) is health insurance. We are hoping to accomplish rate stability and make our employees healthier.

This year more than ever, we will be spreading the word on the importance of the United Way Community Care Fund, ... We are here today because we know our mission is not only possible, but vital. Collectively, we have the power to accomplish great things.

What was left unsaid is what the industry needs in order to accomplish implementation.

What used to require a network of professional promoters and brokers, banks of telephones and months to accomplish can now be done in minutes by a single person using the Internet and a home computer.

Moby

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we're not truly human. That we can be exempt from the human condition, either through intelligence or accomplishment or success or humor. But biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

Nick Saban

We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

Neal A. Maxwell

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Mark Victor Hansen

The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like.' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.

Pau Gasol

Making the playoffs three consecutive seasons is a great accomplishment.

Patrick Lussier

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

Jim Davis

It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Harold Brodkey

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

Ken Robinson

It is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are.

Kelly Clark

Make your relationships more important than your accomplishments .

Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.

Tony Fadell

I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going.

Anne Perry

I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that when I get myself organized, and am in one place long enough, I will have so much energy of mind and belief that I will be able to accomplish infinitely more. My thoughts will be larger and clearer, and with a renewal of life.

Carly Fiorina

But unlike Hillary Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Carly Fiorina

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Carly Fiorina

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.

Jaron Lanier

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Jane McGonigal

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things