Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Porter

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Seth Godin

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Seth Godin

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Seth Godin

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Ray Charles

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Tom Allen

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Noel Gallagher

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Ninette de Valois

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Mitch Albom

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

Miguel de Cervantes

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

John Wesley

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

John Stott

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Nicolas Chamfort

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Nora Roberts

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Nat King Cole

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Myrna Loy

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.

Millard Fuller

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Johnny Marr

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

John Ruskin

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

John Ruskin

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Maxim Gorky

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Max Beerbohm

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Marina Warner

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.