Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.

Carl Tannenbaum

The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Kevin Kane

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

George Young

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Bob Reed

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

Chuck Jones

We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

Jennifer Bowers

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

Brian Smith

We want to prove we can compete in the top half of the Premiership, and that challenge continues on Sunday afternoon,

Darryl Sutter

When you're young like that, you just have to stick to those things that you do really, really well. With a player like that, it's never a mistake or a flaw in his game, it's just about how he harnesses it and challenges it.

Mark Tauscher

We were a real experienced, old team, everyone was a senior, and he stepped in and never was intimidated. Brooks, when he has a challenge in front of him, he usually comes through. He's a winner.

Alan Shepard

Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.

Alan Kay

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Jim Gray

We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.

Carrie Johnson

The fact that no one has really challenged eBay is a reflection of its market strength but also the fact that it scores well on customer satisfaction.

Ben Jackson

The reality is, we're homeless right now. This wasn't the challenge we were looking for at this point in our lives. But I can't tell you how much it's meant to see the love that people have shown.

I. Stone

The real issue, problem and challenge is city of New Orleans.

Andy Garcia

When I met him, he seemed to me a humble man who spoke through his music, and that's the way he's always been, ... He dedicated his life to his music and his art, which transcends cultures and even age.

Tony Hawk

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tracy McMillan

We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do anything interesting. My 40s have been the most incredible time of my life.

Brian Eno

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

Robert Galvan

Venezuela is serving as a model of respect for indigenous peoples and their right to culture, land and sovereignty.

Dave Douglas

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Alan Watts

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

Alan Moore

All culture must have arisen from cult.

Alan Ball

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

Eckhart Tolle

Enthusiasm is the power that transfers the mental blueprint into the physical dimension.

Eckhart Tolle

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Brian Greene

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and maybe they can; it's hard to say.

Cecilia Bartoli

So you see, movies are really another dimension.

Charles Osgood

The dimensions of the radio are truly to be treasured.

David Steele

What he called for was 'an ethical dimension to foreign policy'.

Bob Watters

Since 9/11, (security) has taken on new dimensions that they didn't have before. There are many different layers of security in the process.

Sohrab Sepehri

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

Jose Barroso

need to do more to explain the true dimension of what is at stake, and the nature of the solutions which only Europe can bring.

Carlos Fuentes

Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

Charlie Gonzalez

Diversity for the sake of diversity is not an accomplishment or a step forward. It's what you bring to the table.

Charlie Chaplin

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Carol Shields

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again...

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Richard Smith

We want it to be a learning experience. It's an opportunity to review the plans you developed. Doing a plan is first in the process.

Agnes Repplier

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Drake Reed

We have had a lot of tough lessons on the road this year. It's time to start learning from them.

Tom Watson

I've said many times, 'You learn to win through not liking to lose.' And that's what I mean by learning how to win.

Susan B. Anthony

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Travis Fimmel

People take years learning how to act; it's a skill, not just a job. If I tried it out and thought I'd be OK, then perhaps I'd go for it, but it's not the kind of thing you can get into just because of your looks.

Byron Katie

I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts.

Nick Woodman

If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.

Anja Paerson

She motivates me. I think I motivate her, too.

Bobby Sherman

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Mike Burns

No one's really better than the others. We just try to work together and motivate each other.

Faith Ford

To do my show, I'm always in every scene and it's very physical comedy, and even to motivate to want to work at all when I'm off is very challenging.

Rusty Hand

We got it done, that was the big thing. We didn't play as well as we should and that motivates me to get it done this time.

Dominika Cibulkova

When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Ed Rendell

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.

Boris Becker

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

Jane Kaczmarek

Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

Jana Novotna

I would like to see it go back to the wood racquets. To see the touch put back in tennis.

Bill Anderson

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Bjorn Borg

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

Billie Jean King

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Billie Jean King

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

Chris Evert

Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

Chris Evert

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.