Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Josh Boone

When you want to stop, and you don't think you can give any more, you think about that Pittsburgh jersey in here. Looking up at the scoreboard, seeing that you're down 10 at the end of the game. That gives you a little extra motivation.

Bob Benincasa

When you want something it makes it extra special when you come through.

Shane Sisco

When you see a kid like him, who is as good as he is, it's because of the extra work he puts in. He's willing to put in the extra hours on his own to work on his game.

Jay Wright

When we double-teamed them, they made the extra pass and hit the 3.

Folarin Campbell

Uh, something about going the extra mile and not worrying about traffic, I think.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Lindy Ruff

We made a lot of things happen real slow. We always took the extra second to shoot.

Mike Hargrove

We're giving Jamie an extra day of rest. And this way it winds up giving him two starts at home.

Larry Buchanan

We're looking at getting some extra life out of them in a productive way by providing them to students.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Ron Perry

When you give them the ownership and the responsibility, it makes them more independent.

Becky Zaheri

We have got to take ownership in our city. We can't wait for somebody else to do it.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Sandra Anderson

didn't take very much ownership in that area.

Cary Fukunaga

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

Jerry Lewis

The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.

Jeffrey Skilling

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Kyrsten Sinema

I think there's this pressure to get rid of the fun that makes us human. It hasn't worked on me.

Richard Holbrooke

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

Topher Grace

I worked at Suncoast Video for two years during the summer in high school.

Obie Trice

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Earl Butz

The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

Sallie Krawcheck

Some of it is because things haven't worked out as well as we hoped.

Claudia Stuart

She had worked the streets, but she was well respected, and she has impacted a lot of lives.