Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Dennis Prager

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Eddie Van Halen

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

Aaron Kampman

What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Ludwig von Mises

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

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.

Elizabeth Edwards

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Alan Greenspan

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Mark Cuban

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Bram Stoker

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Janine Benyus

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

Douglas Adams

But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

Andrew Weil

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

Daphne Oz

Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.

Hillary Clinton

I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience.