Quotes about america
american-businessman future
When your future arrives, will you blame your past?
american-businessman time
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
american-businessman asking takes
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
american-businessman bad decisions good
It's easy to make good decisions when there are no bad options.
american-businessman goes ingredient kept
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
american-president attempt hard
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Robert Herrick
american-photographer
I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave. Robert Capa
american-comedian
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of. Robert Benchley
american-entertainer
Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.
american-entertainer list morning people richest
Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
american-educator failure mind neither nor success
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson
american-producer
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. Robert Staughton Lynd
american-producer good
There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer.
america bullets people stray
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger. Robert Reich
american-musician identify nature
First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it. Philip Emeagwali
america ethiopia great living next poverty responsibility seen sees seriously shocking society universal wealth worry
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means. Pico Iyer
american-novelist begun man simply
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. Phillips Brooks
american-artist desire directly knows might sets
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. Philip Guston
american-entertainer terrified
They were terrified that we were going to become an anti-war kind of platform. Phil Donahue
american-entertainer taught
Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.
american-musician painted seems tailor
It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there. Phil Anselmo
american-inventor
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller
american-author art depends extend finally humanity knowledge understanding
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. Ralph Ellison
american-artist rub
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. Norman Rockwell
american-artist
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
american-artist avenue far grew places ran rough third
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
america dreamed national
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language. Cynthia Ozick
american-athlete greatest leaving time
I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America. Curt Flood
american-athlete difficult fans understand
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
american-athlete
But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.
american-athlete came court decided gave grand laid people supreme waiting white work
All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for.
american-athlete hard kicked tried worked
Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did.
american-athlete apart itself lend though
Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.