Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Rodriguez

I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

Colonel Sanders

You got to like your work. You have got to like what you are doing, you have got to be doing something worthwhile so you can like it - because it is worthwhile, that it makes a difference, don't you see?

Daniel Pauly

Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.

Daniel Pauly

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Dan Pallotta

When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems.

Dan Pallotta

We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people.

Dan O'Brien

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Dan Miller

Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.

Dan Miller

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

Dan Miller

Choosing to associate with positive, optimistic people will accelerate our positive growth.

Dan Miller

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Dan Miller

Passion is more developed than discovered.

Dan Miller

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

Dan Miller

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Dan Millman

Although motivation comes and goes, you can always rely on your will.

Dan Millman

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

Common

Now I'm on the rise, doin' business with my guys. Visions realize, music [your craft] affected lives. A gift from the skies, to be recognized, I'm keeping my eye on the people, that's the prize

Clifford Geertz

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

E. W. Howe

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

Coventry Patmore

Nearly all of our disasters come from a few fools having the courage of their convictions.

Nhat Hanh

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Orson Scott Card

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Ram Dass

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

Kurt Vonnegut

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

David Letterman

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

David Blaine

As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

David Joyner

Somewhere along the line you have to trust someone. You've just got to be clever enough to pick someone who's smart and wholesome and worthy-and then just listen to what they say.

David Beckham

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

David Wong

Start working on whatever you hesitate Because there is an ending to every beginning. When you make it to the end, You will realize the hesitation was a waste of time.