Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Corcoran

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Barbara Corcoran

That ability to pop back up is true of anyone who succeeds in their field.

Barbara Corcoran

People want to do business with someone they like. If people like you, they're going to want to do business with you. And if they don't you're going to have an almost insurmountable obstacle to overcome.

Barbara Corcoran

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

Barbara Corcoran

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

Barbara Corcoran

A good organization is like a box of crayons. You need different colors of the spectrum, but all the crayons should fit in the box.

Barbara Corcoran

Always choose attitude over experience. Always.

Barbara Corcoran

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Barbara Corcoran

Finding opportunity is a matter of believing it's there.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Ashley Judd

When I allow myself to feel all my feelings instead of numbing myself to them, they pass more quickly. I spent my entire life telling everyone I was "OK, damn it." But when you surrender to the [uncomfortable] feelings, there are gifts on the other side: Allowing yourself to feel loneliness forces you to reach out. Letting yourself get angry gives you strength, energy and motivation.

Bruce Nauman

One of the factors that still keeps me in the studio is that every so often I have to more or less start all over.

Linda Howard

She is a perfectionist. Her motivation is her own.

Brian Greene

Einstein comes along and says, space and time can warp and curve, that's what gravity is. Now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism - all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.

Brandon Sanderson

The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense.

Brandon Sanderson

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Ben Marcus

Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

Barbara Jordan

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing for today?' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Babe Ruth

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Arthur Koestler

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Miller

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Arthur Ashe

I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I cannot - nor will not - be ordinary. I have to keep training and seeking and growing. I have to stay hungry. It is my will and so has become my nature.

Ayrton Senna

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

Ayrton Senna

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

Ayrton Senna

By being a racing driver you are under risk all the time. By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win. And the main motivation to all of us is to compete for victory, it's not to come 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th. I race to win as long as I feel it's possible. Sometimes you get it wrong? Sure, it's impossible to get it right all the time. But I race designed to win, as long as I feel I'm doing it right,

Ayn Rand

I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anything I've got to give. My work done my way. A private, personal, selfish, egotistical motivation. That's the only way I function. That's all I am.

Ayn Rand

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.