Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Page

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

Ken Buck

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Oprah Winfrey

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Olivia Newton-John

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Cho

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK.

Jalal Talabani

It is legitimate for you to think about withdrawing your troops, but it must be done gradually and in consultation with the Iraqi government.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

He'll graduate in May and he wants to get on with things.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Brian Kernighan

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Charlie Trotter

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Ving Rhames

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Douglas Smith

You don't really want to be responsible for the unwinding, because you can't be sure the markets will react in a gradual way.

Ving Rhames

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

Ivy Lee

We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.

Sean Hayes

We are really pleased with our results and 69% of students received A to C grade passes.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

There is a very gradual improvement, but the rate of improvement is painfully slow.

Eric Porter

We could have kids that have graduated in here or kids from other schools, ... This will help teachers identify students.