Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Charles R. Swindoll

In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

Dennis Prager

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

Debra Wilson

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

Eleanor Catton

For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself by what he is willing to do, by what he might have said, or might have done—a judgment that is necessarily hampered, not only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.

Elbert Hubbard

The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

Edsger Dijkstra

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

Earl Nightingale

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Elinor Lipman

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

Richard P. Feynman

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

Tom Waits

Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Dennis Potter

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Haysbert

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Denis Diderot

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Edgar Allan Poe

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

David Lindsay

Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect.

August Wilson

I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

Democritus

The word is the shadow of the deed.

Democritus

Word is a shadow of a deed.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our 'pathway' is straight to the ballot box, with no variableness nor shadow of turning.

Abdul Kalam

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Tracy Kidder

I was really so afraid. Of my own shadow practically.

Beth Lowery

She was like my shadow and I don't have my shadow no more. She's gone.

Aberjhani

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

Charles Dickens

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.