Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Koch

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Elizabeth Moon

Motivation is the power behind plot.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Moses

Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Edwin Louis Cole

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Edward McKendree Bounds

None but praying leaders can have praying followers. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need pastors and evangelists who will set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers who can set the Church to praying.

Bill Nye

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

Bill Moyers

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Bernard Hopkins

I'm lining up my troops to go to battle with. Tarver is the man at light heavyweight. He has the credibility of the fans and media, and that's what counts. That's why I am taking this risk, but I am taking it by preparing myself with good people.

Bernard Hopkins

I got knocked down. Anybody could be knocked down, anybody can be knocked out, but it's not what happened, but what happens next.

Bernard Hopkins

Understand that I'm at my best when it comes to proving a point, not only to show that I'm a better fighter and a better athlete at 40½ years old, but I'm at my best when I know I've got to beat the system again.

Bernard Hopkins

I still shop at Costco. I just started tipping two years ago.

Bernard Hopkins

Boxers are resilitant guys. We know how to take of a big punch that hits us, we know how to survive. Oscar is a survivor, he's gonna be back bigger and stronger.

Bernard Hopkins

I've got a history of frustrating guys and making them angry.

Bernard Hopkins

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

Bernard Hopkins

Anybody who thinks I'm taking this fight for a paycheck doesn't know me. My whole life I've been achieving the impossible.

Bernard Hopkins

I really didn't care. I'd do something to somebody and walk in front of them the next day like it never happened. I had very very low value on my own life.

Bernard Hopkins

The streets was basically my parents.

Bernard Hopkins

I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

Bernard Hopkins

I was told I would be back in 90 days. If I listened to people, I would be back where I came from - the penitentiary.

Bernard Hopkins

I wouldn't wanna fight me, because I know it wouldn't be a good outcome for both.

Bernard Hopkins

If I'm in a situation where Duane Ford is one of the judges, I have to pick it up.

Bernard Hopkins

I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.

Bernard Hopkins

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

Bernard Hopkins

I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

Bernard Hopkins

The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

Bernard Hopkins

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

Bernard Baruch

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

Bernard Baruch

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Chad Michael Murray

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

Cass Sunstein

Those who believe in climate change, as I do, I think it's also fair to say that they are more receptive to confirming evidence than disconfirming evidence. They happen to be right, but their motivations are in play also.

Carlos Ghosn

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.