Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Porter

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Michael Porter

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Michael Pollan

Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.

James Lipton

When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.

Leon Kass

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

Temple Grandin

When I was a little child I had problems with eating in the cafeteria. The chairs would be jerking in and out, and there was a noise overload.

Dennis Banks

When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Temple Grandin

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

Charles Dickens

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

Charles Caleb Colton

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Charles Dickens

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

Charles Dickens

If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.

Charles Dickens

Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Gretchen Rubin

I've always loved 'Before and After' stories, in books, magazines, and TV shows. Whenever I read those words, I'm hooked. The thought of a transformation - any kind of transformation - thrills me. And that's the promise of habits.

David Justice

This was a team that really loved each other. It's rare that you find a team that really pulls for each other, that really loves each other.

Kathryn Lasky

I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!

Robert Krulwich

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Hunter Birckhead

She said she loved us, and she meant it.

Loretta Neigeborn

She said she just loved it here and wanted to stay.

Justin Timberlake

She had a passion for what she did, ... She loved to work and she loved to make music.

Ronald Williams

She really loved her neighbors there. She made a lot of friends there.

Angela Ross

She never complained about it. She loved those kids.

Michael Behe

When you start putting constraints on science, science suffers.

Patterson Hood

We were supposed to be taking it slowly this fall, with putting together the album,

Brian Donahue

We're putting together a top-notch team of professionals.

Steve Davis

We're putting things in place this season to get us there.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Nancy Grace

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

Shane MacGowan

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Jeff Ross

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

Najib Razak

I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Jan Schakowsky

all of our soldiers still don't have up-armored Humvees.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Jaswant Singh

These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,