Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Bantock

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Nancy Allen

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

Mortimer Zuckerman

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Mortimer Adler

Too many facts are often as much of an obstacle to understanding as too few. There is a sense in which we moderns are inundated with facts to the detriment of understanding.

Mortimer Adler

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

Peter Drucker

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Peter Drucker

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Peter Drucker

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

Penelope Wilton

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Paulo Coelho

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Paulo Coelho

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Martin Scorsese

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

Marisha Pessl

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Marjane Satrapi

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

Mariano Rivera

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

Maria Sharapova

My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.

Meghan O'Rourke

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Shawn Stockman

I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.

Rafael Nadal

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Nicolas Chamfort

We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

Nicolas Cage

If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

Nick Vujicic

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

Nicholson Baker

Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber.

Norah Jones

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

Nora Roberts

I didn't get fired." "You didn't punch your boss and get fired from the Tribune? That's what I heard." "I punched what could loosely be called a colleague for cribbing my notes on a story and since the editor–who happened to be the asshole's uncle–took his word over mine, I quit." "To write books. Is it fun?" "I guess it is." "I bet you killed the asshole in the first one you wrote." "You'd be right. Beat him to death with a shovel. Very satisfying.

Nikola Tesla

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

Nicole Krauss

When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with unexpected complexity; some of it asked for, and some of it not. It becomes richer, I find.

Nicole Krauss

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.