Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Dennis Rodman

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Dennis Rodman

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

Dennis Rodman

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Dennis Rodman

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

Democritus

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

Elbert Hubbard

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Dean Smith

Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.

Dean Smith

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very.

Earl Nightingale

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Edward Witten

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Alain Prost

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.

Akio Morita

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.

Chris Carter

I think that you appreciate that there are extraordinary men and women and extraordinary moments when history leaps forward on the backs of these individuals, that what can be imagined can be achieved, that you must dare to dream, but that there's no substitute for perseverance and hard work and teamwork because no one gets there alone; and that, while we commemorate the... the greatness of these events and the individuals who achieve them, we cannot forget the sacrifice of those who make these achievements and leaps possible.

Carl Sagan

Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails: What one of us, even the most brilliant among us, misses, another of us, even someone much less celebrated and capable, may detect and rectify.

Alexandra Paul

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

Italo Calvino

I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.

Italo Calvino

I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

Italo Calvino

Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.

Peter Jennings

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

Richard Rogers

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

Robert Fisk

We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,' and my father was a solider in the First World War which produced the current Middle East - not that he had much to do with that - but he fought in what he believed was the Great War for Civilization.

Robert Palmer

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.