Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul O'Neill

In our history we have seen times when there is a disconnect between the stock market and the fundamental productive power of our economy, ... The reality is that our economy remains solid, and our recovery is well under way.

Clayton Christensen

I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

Investors are starting to discount the second quarter and price in growth in the fourth quarter,

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Rita Dove

In working on a poem,I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

In weak market environments, the stock trades at a discount to the parts. The move to realize value is not unique to Tyco.

Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

Seth Numrich

If you think you're in shape, try boxing. You'll discover that you are not. It's the most physically challenging thing I've ever attempted, but I love it and I want to keep up some of the training.

Mario Van Peebles

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.

Ernst Mayr

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Ernest Rutherford

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

Carly Schroeder

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

Carly Simon

It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Graham Moore

There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

Jay Leno

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election...

Kirk Hammett

Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror.

Murray Rothbard

Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society, since they help alleviate natural scarcity. But once a commodity is established as a money on the market, no more money at all is needed. Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.

Myles Munroe

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

Milton Friedman

The Soviet experience was much worse than experts in the West had thought. That discovery had a tremendous impact both on the intellectual community and on the public at large.

H. L. Mencken

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Georg Cantor

I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The very desire to be certain,to be secure,is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty,and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

Jennifer Haigh

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

He actually just picked out the trash bag, and it felt heavier than what he expected, ... He looked inside, and that's when he discovered it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

Horace Walpole

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

Homer

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Homer

The best things beyond their measure cloy.