Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amelia Earhart

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

Annie Lennox

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

Annie Dillard

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.

Clay Shirky

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

Clayton Christensen

My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and grow, take responsibility and be recognized for achievement, and contribute to the success of a team.

Clayton Christensen

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Daniel Kahneman

Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Conrad Hilton

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Clint Eastwood

After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are.

Clarence Darrow

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Alexander Pope

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alex Tabarrok

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

Alex Gibney

In many ways, I'm a big admirer still of Julian Assange. He had balls to do what he did and his motivations in terms of holding the powerful to account are tremendously inspiring to me.

Albert Schweitzer

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Albert Schweitzer

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

E. O. Wilson

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Drew Curtis

Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.

Doug Stanhope

I don't have a gun. But I think they level the playing field. I accept that there's really nothing you can do about it. It's like nuclear weapons; if they exist then eventually other people are going to have them. Maybe just take away people's motivation to use them.

Doris Lessing

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Donald Faison

If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.

Don Ward

Rather than admit a mistake, nations have gone to war, families have separated, and good people have sacrificed everything dear to them. Admitting that you were wrong is just another way of saying that you are wiser today than yesterday.

Don Tapscott

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

Dale Dauten

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

Dale Dauten

If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

Dale Archer

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

Dale Carnegie

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Dale Carnegie

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

Dale Carnegie

The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Dale Carnegie

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.