Famous Quotes & Sayings

Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

We believe that Goldman, as the market leader, will attract the best professionals to work in the Russian and, first and foremost, Moscow real-estate markets.

Whether the catalyst was the cessation of tax selling or just a rally from a truly depressed area, the Nasdaq is attracting some bargain hunting. I would suggest stocks were over discounting shorter-term problems that have already been announced.

We've always stood up well in comparison with our competitors in technical tests but users disliked that they had to pay $39 and that we had ads. We decided to eliminate these obstacles in order to attract users.

We're sorry to see it go. It took 30 years to put that name back on a Pontiac car. GTO did what it needed to do: Give us a credible performance vehicle to attract people into showrooms. Even those who quibbled about the styling never questioned the car's performance.

Dan Bailey

We're going to go into immediate production after the trials, ... We've been below the radar screen. We're in an industry that doesn't attract much attention.

Dannel Malloy

Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Web sites that attract users by flagrant copyright infringement we don't see as a business.

Steve Williams

What looked attractive initially, after studies, it has some real drawbacks.

We're just working with the hotels with their own individual marketing materials, and we're putting together a campaign to attract those corporate retreats and conventions.

Ron Meyer

Universal had its most profitable year ever in 2005 due in no small part to Marc, whose impact on this company has been the foundation for its unique culture and its far-ranging achievements, His combination of strengths is unique in that he has been able to attract exceptional creative talent in a specialty film environment and at the same time is revered in the global sales and distribution community for his taste and acumen.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve sacrifice of human lives, attracted wide public attention.

Wu Bangguo

Work safety incidents, which always involve losses of human lives, attracted wide public attention. Therefore, in 2005, the NPC Standing Committee examined the work safety law implementation from various aspects.

We feel that it is a great way to attract very well-qualified employees.

Jeff Carter

We're proud to move to a brand that has a long-standing place in our country's banking history. Through expanded products and services, our combined company will make banking even more attractive for Chase customers in Florida.

We're finding it harder now to find attractive (energy) deals. It was a great time to buy energy companies when oil prices were $25 a barrel. By definition, it's a harder time to do energy deals.

We're eyeing this stock because we think that it's going to make an attractive company to take a position, ... But for the time being, I wouldn't want to be out in front of the freight train. So we're on the sidelines right now.

Jason Silva

Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.

Eric Taylor

Yes, damage has been considerable, but our eyes are attracted to the broken or blown-over trees. In most forests, there may still be undamaged and manageable trees.

With the stock trading at these attractive levels, we would have liked to see more significant repurchases.

We know we're always in a competitive situation when we seek to attract production facilities to Indiana, so this was a huge win for our state.

Ultimately, retaining and attracting businesses means saving and creating jobs. That's good for our customers and the Southern California economy.

Sebastian Coe

When the subsidies are going out there to fund arts, I'd like to see jazz given a better shake of the dice. It attracts as many people as opera does, but not the subsidies.

Laura Fraser

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research foundation. If you don't raise money and provide research grants, you'll never attract scientists, and if scientists aren't working on a cure, there isn't going to be a cure.

Sherry Argov

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Rick Perlstein

Why was Barack Obama attractive to people in 2008? If you think about Barack Obama, there's all this anxiety about society, just kind of wracked by centripetal forces - the idea that the center's not holding, no one can talk to each other, the idea of a political system that's broken.

I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me.

Like any other sort of fringe activity, you find that people are attracted to it because there's something that it fulfills that their daily life doesn't.

Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people

Peter Graves

Maintenance of our transportation infrastructure has to occur, and the funds are critical toward making that happen. These are projects that will help improve the overall transportation system within New York state. It will attract new business. We view this as very important for New York state and its communities.