Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oprah Winfrey

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

Oprah Winfrey

Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.

Oprah Winfrey

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Oliver Goldsmith

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

Ken Robinson

The more alive we feel, the more we can contribute to the lives of others.

Ken Robinson

You can think of creativity as applied imagination.

Ken Robinson

Research indicates that, as long as we keep using our brains in an active way, we continue to build neural pathways as we get older. This gives us not only the ongoing potential for creative thought, but also an additional incentive for continuing to stretch ourselves.

Ken Robinson

Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.

Ken Robinson

It's not what happens to us that makes the difference in our lives. What makes the difference is our attitude towards what happens. The idea of luck is a powerful way of illustrating the importance of our basic attitudes in affecting whether or not we find our Element.

Ken Robinson

Some dreams truly are 'impossible dreams.' However, many aren't. Knowing the difference is often one of the first steps to finding your element, because if you can see the chances of making a dream come true, you can also likely see the necessary next steps you need to take toward achieving it.

Ken Robinson

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

Ken Robinson

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.

Ken Robinson

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Ken Robinson

One of the strongest signs of being in the zone is a sense of freedom and of authenticity. When we are doing something that we love and are naturally good at, we are much more likely to feel centered in our true sense of self - to be who we feel we truly are. When we are in our Element, we feel we are doing what we are meant to be doing and being who we're meant to be.

Ken Robinson

One way of opening ourselves up to new opportunities is to make conscious efforts to look differently at our ordinary situations. Doing so allows a person to see the world as one rife with possibility and to take advantage of some of those possibilities if they seem worth pursuing.

Ken Robinson

Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.

Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Margaret Thatcher

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

B. C. Forbes

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

Armand Hammer

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Ben Stein

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Barbara Corcoran

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

Paul Watson

There is a lack of economic and political motivation to defend life in the oceans. The profit is made by companies exploiting the oceans and they have the money to buy the politicians who make the laws.

Mary McDonnell

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

Mary Oliver

Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Martina Navratilova

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Mark Rylance

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools of thought, and someone who had a motivation that equals the scope of the comedy and the tragedy in the plays.

Pierre Corneille

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.