Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Tim Tebow

For some reason in today's society, people look up to football players and you have a voice. And it's because of that voice you have the opportunity to impact people's lives.

George Thomas

The outlook for first quarter 2006 has been steadily improving and we are now seeing less than normal industry seasonality impact in our business.

Brian Eno

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

David Greenberg

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency.

David Guterson

Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it.

David Crystal

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

David Suzuki

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Janna Levin

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

Edmund Burke

I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with a profound reverence for the wisdom of our ancestors, who have left us the inheritance of so happy a Constitution and so flourishing an empire, and, what is a thousand times more valuable, the treasury of the maxims and principles which formed the one and obtained the other.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The important graphs are the ones where some things are not connected to some other things. When the unenlightened ones try to be profound, they draw endless verbal comparisons between this topic, and that topic, which is like this, which is like that; until their graph is fully connected and also totally useless.

Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

Steve Crump

What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.

Blythe Danner

Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.

Karen Harris

We have seen a huge gain in our (Illinois Standards Achievement Test) scores just because of these kids who have role models and good behaviors skills. Overall the students have helped the whole building.

Charles Spurgeon

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Alan Bleasdale

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Andrew Wiles

I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

Timothy Ferriss

Workaholics typically have a lot of achievement with very little appreciation of what they have, whether it's cars or friendships or otherwise. That is a shallow victory. Then you have people with a lot of appreciation and no achievement, which is fine, but it doesn't create a lot of good in the world.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Does making money excite me? No, but I have to make money for my shareholders. What excites me is achievement, doing something difficult.

David McCullough

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Jim Young

We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.

Lynda Resnick

Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.