Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vaclav Havel

Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena.

Usain Bolt

It was not perfect but I'm very happy. It could have been better, but I'm now looking forward to my second race of the season.

Usain Bolt

The important thing was that I got the win. It's good for confidence and the season.

Suzanne Farrell

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

Sophie Kinsella

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

Sophocles

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Sophocles

Who seeks shall find.

Stephen Levine

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

Stephen Leacock

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Sonia Gandhi

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

Stanley Kubrick

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Swami Vivekananda

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

Swami Vivekananda

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Swami Vivekananda

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Rumi

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Rumi

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

Rumi

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Tom Peters

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Tom Peters

Celebrate what you want to see more of.

Tom Landry

The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

Tom Landry

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.

Tom Landry

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tom Ford

I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

Steve Wozniak

I hope you're as lucky as I am. The world needs inventors--great ones. You can be one. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it really takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

Steve Prefontaine

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

Steve Prefontaine

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

Steve Prefontaine

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Stephen Covey

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Stephen Covey

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

Stephen Covey

It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.

Stephen Covey

We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more; when we expect less, we tend to get less.

Stephen Covey

You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.

Stephen Covey

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.