Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Broccoli

And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it wasn't for Sean Connery, we wouldn't all be here. I was raised to fight for what I believed in, so I wasn't going to give up. I wanted Daniel Craig, and Michael wanted Daniel Craig, so we just stuck to our guns. Fortunately, we had the right management who really stuck with us. Thanks to that, we got our choice. He's been an extraordinary Bond, and he is very much the right Bond for the 21st century.

Barbara Broccoli

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

Antonio Gramsci

I would like you to understand completely, also emotionally, that I'm a political detainee and will be a political prisoner, that I have nothing now or in the future to be ashamed of in this situation. That, at bottom, I myself have in a certain sense asked for this detention and this sentence, because I've always refused to change my opinion, for which I would be willing to give my life and not just remain in prison. That therefore I can only be tranquil and content with myself.

Antonio Porchia

If a fanatic is willing to give his life for a cause, he's probably willing to give yours as well I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received

Antonio Porchia

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

Anzia Yezierska

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Bruce Lee

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Bruce Lee

It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

Bruce Lee

He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Bruce Lee

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Bruce Lee

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotion, because the body always follows the mind.

Bruce Lee

Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Brian Williams

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

Edwidge Danticat

The greatest gift anyone can give to a writer is time.

Edmund Hillary

I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily.

Eckhart Tolle

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Eckhart Tolle

In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.

Eckhart Tolle

Whenever you are able, have a "look" inside yourself to see whether you are unconsciously creating conflict between the inner and the outer, between your external circumstances at that moment - where you are, who you are with, or what you are doing - and your thoughts and feelings. Can you feel how painful it is to internally stand in opposition to what is? When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Eckhart Tolle

The thing that gives you power also traps you.

Eckhart Tolle

As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.

Eckhart Tolle

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Eckhart Tolle

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

Eckhart Tolle

How’ is always more important that ‘what.’ See if you can give much more attention to the doing than to the result that you want to achieve through it.

Eckhart Tolle

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Eckhart Tolle

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Eckhart Tolle

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Elihu Root

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Elif Safak

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.