Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guy Finley

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

Guy Finley

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Guy Finley

True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it any more than you seek the air you breathe. It is a part of life to be found within living. ... All pursuit of happiness is based upon the false assumption that there is a way to possess it; you may as well try to grab a handful of breeze! Happiness is the natural expression of a stress-free life, just as sunlight naturally warms the Earth after dark clouds appear.

He's tough. He's a very tough inspector, meaning he is to the book.

Eric Williams

To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

Erich Fromm

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Sometimes I just thumb through the dictionary. I find words I don't know the meaning of.

It was the true meaning of a road trip. By the end of the trip we were all really exhausted.

What product do you want to produce - product meaning calves.

Gary Ross

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Michael White

It's not really purposeful, but you end up shooting the places where you are. All of these places have specific meaning to me.

Tyrone Willingham

I've done this before, ... But it's meaningful because there will be many others that will make something of it.

James Dobson

One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

Jared Polis

I oppose piracy and want to see intellectual property protected because that is what fosters and rewards innovation. But SOPA won't accomplish a meaningful reduction in piracy and causes massive collateral damage to the Internet ecosystem.

Jaron Lanier

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

Jared Leto

Some people believe in God. I believe in music. Some people pray. I turn up the radio.

Jane Pauley

The years after 50 can be a time of great productivity, meaningful work, pleasure, creativity, and innovation. It's a huge opportunity.

Jane Pauley

I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.

Euripides

Much effort, much prosperity.

Cassandra Clare

to love is to destroy

Jenna Elfman

I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.

Fred Hoyle

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Kenneth Rexroth

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Kamala Harris

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Judi Dench

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Josh Earnest

I think that there have been a number of situations in which you’ve seen this administration intervene in a meaningful way, that has substantially furthered American interests and substantially improved the, uh, you know, the – the tranquility of the global community,

Joseph Joubert

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Kristin Lehman

I injured myself quite badly when I was seventeen. I broke my ankle, and it didn't heal in such a way that I could keep dancing at the level I wanted to. It wasn't like, 'Oh my god, I'll never play the violin again.' I could, but not at the level I wanted. So, I segued into acting, the other thing that was also meaningful to me.

Hunter S. Thompson

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Hu Shih

Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

Howard Rheingold

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

Howard Schultz

Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.

Howard Schultz

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?