Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Those who have power a) understand that the world is not always a just and fair place and accept that fact, b) understand the bases and strategies for acquiring power, and c) take actions consistent with their knowledge in a skillful way. Skill at anything requires practice, and power skills are no different.

Jeff Cunningham

I don't skip practice, I'm not late for meetings, I'm professional in everything I do, you never hear about me not showing up for planes and missing flights, so why is it that I'm always being labeled a bad guy?

James C. Collins

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

Gary Snyder

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

Gary Zukav

Practice moderation in all things except love.

Hillary Clinton

No practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us.

Herbert Hoover

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

Esther Hicks

Get out into the sunlight-out where everything is-with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable, don't come into your experience, because your vibration-through your practice-has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

Esther Hicks

You gotta chill and relax, and release, meditate, and breathe and walk, and ski and surf, and bask and sunbathe and relax and sing and love and laugh and nurture yourself, and eat good stuff. And find better and better feeling thoughts and practice them until they become the norm. And then everything that life has caused you to become must manifest into your experience.

Esther Hicks

Savor more; fix less. Laugh more; cry less. Anticipate positively more; anticipate negatively less. Just practice that and watch what happens.

Ernest Hemingway

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway

I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.

Ernest Hemingway

Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate.

Erwin Chargaff

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Erykah Badu

I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.

Ernest Holmes

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Flannery O'Connor

Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding

Felix Frankfurter

A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.

Fay Weldon

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

Frances Wright

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

George Washington

The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .

George Washington

There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money

George W. Bush

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

Chris Wooding

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice.

George W. Bush

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

George W. Bush

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

George Carlin

Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

George Carlin

The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives.

Frederick Douglass

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Frank Sinatra

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

Henry Mintzberg

You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.

Cate Blanchett

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

J. C. Ryle

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.