Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve-O

Regardless of anyone's dietary motivations, the healthiest lifestyle is the one that's most compassionate.

Steve Nash

I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

Steve Nash

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.

Steve Nash

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Steve McConnell

Motivation is undoubtedly the single greatest influence on how well people perform. Most productivity studies have found that motivation has a stronger influence on productivity than any other factor.

Stephen Hawking

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

Stephen King

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Stephen King

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Stephen Hawking

Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.

Spencer Wells

DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

Spike Lee

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

Sigmund Freud

The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Shereen El Feki

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

Shereen El Feki

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Shereen El Feki

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Shawn Mullins

You're born to shimmer, you're born to shine, you're born to radiate

Shawn Achor

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

Shawn Achor

Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

Shaun White

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Shakti Gawain

An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.

Shakti Gawain

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Sergey Brin

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

Steven Pressfield

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt. We experince it as an energy field radiating from a work-in-potential... Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.

Steven Pressfield

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.

Steven Pressfield

The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs to avoid, at all costs, the voice inside her head that would point her toward her calling and her destiny. So she seeks distraction. The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.

Steven Pressfield

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

Steven Pinker

Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Sun Tzu

When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

We have a lot to learn from [bonobos], because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.

Robert Browning

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

Richard Simmons

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.