Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raghuram Rajan

There are times in the life of nations when they feel confident that they can take on the world, that they are capable of meeting any challenge. One reason such a mind-set is important is that it creates an intolerance for laziness, for shoddy products, for open corruption, and for the usual excuses. When people have a strong conviction that they can achieve the possibilities of the future, it makes them less tolerant of impediments in their way to it.

Vicente Fox

There are people who in private ask us to respect the confidentiality of their donations, and we do, because we understand the fear they have of being repressed, just as I was when I began in politics. Important businesspeople often lose the vision of the wonderful opportunities this country offers if we achieve a true democracy-they prefer short-term benefits. The ones who ARE changing are women. They have a very different vision.

Jack Canfield

Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

Jack Canfield

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

Jack Canfield

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

Johnny Vegas

I am very proud of what 'Johnny' achieved in stand-up comedy because he believed entirely in giving an audience the best kick he could. But he was someone who was quite detrimental to my health, both emotionally and physically.

Ahmed Zewail

I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.

We're sending a very strong lineup. These five people carried our team all year and now they have a chance to earn national titles. They all have experience and know what to do to achieve success.

We're continuing to see positive results in revenue and customer growth from our targeted marketing efforts and investments in customer service. Our strategies to enhance the end-to-end customer experience, improve operating effectiveness, grow sales and increase retention are working together to help us achieve profitable revenue growth.

Shilpa Shetty

Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better. In the movies, we may look very glamourous and fit, but believe me, not many of us are actually fit from within. Yoga has helped me achieve that.

Shilpa Shetty

I want a happy marriage and whatever it takes to achieve that. But I think the main prerequisite would have to be respect. He would have to respect me and vice-versa. And, that would be more important than being in love. I think respect really goes a long way. And he would have to keep me happy. And he'd have to be very, very, secure.

Richard P. Feynman

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Robert Osborne

Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.

Robert Trout

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.

Douglas Adams

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.

Lifting the debt burden from the poorest countries in the world brightens their prospects enormously. This is an achievement of historic proportions.

Let me tell you something: Roush getting five cars in, that's a heck of an accomplishment. Good for them. I admire what was done there, and we feel like we can do that, too.

Sathya Baba

Life is an opportunity afforded to each not to eat and drink, but to achieve something nobler and higher to merge in the Reality.

Smiley Blanton

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Kofi Annan

let us be frank with each other, and the peoples of the United Nations. We have not yet achieved the sweeping and fundamental reform that I, and many others, believe is required. Sharp differences, some of them substantive and legitimate, have played their part in preventing that.

LSI has achieved first pass success on this product, which is unique in the industry and is a testament to our expander expertise and SAS development process. Using LSI, OEMs have the opportunity to source expanders and controllers from a single vendor, providing proven interoperable solutions and the lowest risk path to success. By reducing the number of vendors to be managed, these OEMs can speed products to their customers faster.

LSI has achieved first pass success on this product. Using LSI, OEMs have the opportunity to source expanders and controllers from a single vendor, providing proven interoperable solutions and the lowest risk path to success. By reducing the number of vendors to be managed, these OEMs can speed products to their customers faster.

Paul Stamets

Maitake can achieve humongous sizes, sometimes up to 50 pounds per specimen! Massive maitake can form annually from dying dendritic tree roots for many years, even decades.

Linda McMahon

Making these operations more efficient is critical to achieve our long-term goal of expanding our proprietary product offerings,

Making sure our senatorial slate was able to run has been our priority all along. I'm glad we could reach a resolution to actually achieve this goal.

Emily Hughes

Making it here is such an accomplishment for me. I don't have any expectations, just to go out there and attack everything and skate my best.

making a very serious effort to achieve as much as possible.

Hu Jintao

Let's join up to work hard to achieve common prosperity and development.

Lewis Carroll's marvelous stories evoke a wondrous world and it is important that we ensure enough time for this production to achieve its fullest realization, ... We look forward to continuing to work on this new project with playwright Annie Weisman and composer Michael Friedman and to presenting it in the future.

Stephen Bayley

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

Abby Wambach

When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.