Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Joshua Katcher

We want it to be a team effort from top to bottom, and we want to give the fans a good show. I think everyone will tell you that the traditional (tournament) title is more special because that's where the sport started, but this is special because we've been so inconsistent with injuries, and different line-ups and we have been able to go undefeated so far, even with all those things to overcome.

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.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Phoebe Diftler

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

Richard G. Scott

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Bret Harte

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.

Teemu Selanne

We know how much it takes, and nothing is going to come easy. We just have to find that effort and do better on special teams.

Sean Callahan

We have to get up for every team we play. Our focus now is to win a state championship. Yeah, we want to get back at Hillsborough, but we see the big picture and that is to win games,

John Torchetti

We have to get our focus on the playoffs. Whatever it takes. The commitment, the attitude, the leadership.

Jan Vandemoortele

We have to focus now on the next big problem which will be heating.

Matt Millen

We have to focus back with our football team,

Kevin Garnett

We have no choice. We're in a position where we have to stop looking down the road and start to focus on one game at a time and getting better.

Bob Willis

We want our students to be able to focus on their futures when they graduate without being saddled with huge amounts of student loan debt.

Doug Snyder

We want him to be focused. We want him to focus on leading this team and helping his teammates in the postseason. We thought it was productive and fruitful.

Lance Traywick

We have a young team that is very inexperienced and at times when we don't throw strikes, their focus can wane from time to time.

Etsuko Yamashita

The CPI proved not so helpful for the yen's rises. The market is now shifting its focus to the policy meeting.