Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Houston

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Wangari Maathai

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Wayne Dyer

Never live beneath your privileges.

Tory Burch

I'm always perpetually out of my comfort zone.

Stephen Chbosky

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Sonia Sotomayor

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

Sallie Krawcheck

If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Russell Simmons

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Russell Simmons

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

Ruth Reichl

One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning.

Rumi

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

Rumi

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Rosa Parks

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

Susan B. Anthony

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

Sonny Perdue

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Steve Jobs

That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

Steve Jobs

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight....

Steve Jobs

All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.

Steve Jobs

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

Steve Jobs

I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

Steve Jobs

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Steve Jobs

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Mira Nair

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Pearl S. Buck

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Peace Pilgrim

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Pema Chodron

In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess these, but they can be ripened: precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go.

Pema Chodron

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

Pema Chodron

WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we’re bad and hoping that we’re good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth. They are like clouds that temporarily block the sun. But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

Peter Senge

We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.