Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Gardner

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.

Howard Gardner

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Howard Baker

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Horace

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

Horace

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Hank Aaron

I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

Hank Aaron

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hannah Arendt

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

Hannah Arendt

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Hannah Arendt

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Guy Clark

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

Guy Finley

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.

Guy Finley

Until you can love what the truth would teach you about yourself... then your love is incomplete.

Guy Finley

Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.

Guy Finley

You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today.

Guy Finley

Discouragement tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave.

Guy Finley

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Guy Finley

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.

Guy Finley

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Gore Vidal

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.

Gore Vidal

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Harvey S. Firestone

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

Harold Nicolson

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

James E. Faust

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

James D'arcy

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

James Dean

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

James Bryant Conant

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

James Brown

I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more.

Jakob Nielsen

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.