Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Mead

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Heffernan

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

Margaret Heffernan

The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.

Margaret Halsey

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

Marco Tempest

Everything I did, I did for mankind.

Marcus Buckingham

Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.

Kimi Raikkonen

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

Michael Fassbender

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like? What I do is put that together.

Melinda Gates

That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Michele Bachmann

If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and motivates me more than anything - just the concept of freedom, liberty, what it means.

Michael Strahan

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

I'm a project guy, but when my list of things to do gets too long or involved, it can stress me out to the point of catatonia. So I focus on the small stuff first and keep the larger picture as motivation - but not so close that it overwhelms.

Neale Donald Walsch

Whatever it is that you wish to experience more of in your life, be the source of it in the life of another.

Nate Parker

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

Nancy Werlin

Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

Morgan Spurlock

When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged.

Morrie Schwartz

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Marcel Proust

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

Marcel Proust

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Lance Armstrong

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lisa See

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

Lisa Kristine

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Johnny Depp

They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

Johnny Depp

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

John Updike

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

John Shelby Spong

The trouble is, the same thing that enabled us to survive evolution is also going to kill us, because in the final analysis, if survival is the primary motivation of every human being, then we will finally be in a situation where might will make right and only one person will survive.

James Howard Kunstler

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

James Russell Lowell

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

James Randi

[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.

James Randi

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating.