Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

John C. Maxwell

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

James Spader

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

James Surowiecki

If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

James Merrill

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.

James MacGregor Burns

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Emily Dickinson

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

Elliott Smith

You can't get better at things you never play.

All the big players are now in the water.

All season we've played a lot of people. I'd say, out of our 29 games, I think 27 of them, everyone has played on our team.

Gus Frerotte

And I didn't play well. I've got to step up and make better plays for these guys.

Edward Bond

Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Edward Bond

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.

Edward Bond

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

Edward Bond

The one overall structure in my plays is language

Edward Albee

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Edward Albee

There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.

Edward Albee

All plays are social comment to one extent or another.

Edward Albee

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Edward Albee

Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were 'necessary.' I will go one step further and say that Arthur's plays are 'essential'

Edith Hamilton

There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

Eddie George

I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Holland Taylor

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

Holly Johnson

I think the main thing you have to remember when going into the post-season is to stay relaxed. All of the energy and excitement can be overwhelming but the thing I'll try to relay to the younger players is just stay calm and focused.

Hermann Hesse

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological.

Hermann Hesse

Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill.

Henrik Larsson

He(C. Ronaldo) makes the most difficult plays look easy.

Henrik Larsson

Cristiano is unlucky to be playing in the same era as Messi. Ronaldo is a very good player, but Messi is even better.

Henri Matisse

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Heidi Montag

I’ve even written a role for Dolly Parton to play the town mayor!

Hattie McDaniel

I'd rather play a maid than be one.