Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Arguello

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

Alexis Carrel

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Alexandre Aja

I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it then I'm guessing that some other people might want to see it as well. I never try to think about what people will love or will like, because when you start to think for other people that's where you lose track of the real motivation.

Alexandre Dumas

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

Brooks Robinson

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Alan Cohen

You are doing better than you think you are.

Alberto Tomba

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.

Albert Einstein

Most teachers waste their time by asking question which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what pupils knows or is capable of knowing.

Albert Einstein

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

Albert Einstein

One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.

Albert Einstein

Failure is success in progress

Albert Einstein

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

Albert Einstein

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Alex Ferguson

If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.

Aldous Huxley

Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.

Aldous Huxley

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Albert Einstein

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer.

Alexander Hamilton

The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.

We don't know the motivation (for the suicide).

Terence McKenna

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

Aberjhani

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.