Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Pitino

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Tan Le

I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.

Tan Le

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. ... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

Tamara Ecclestone

I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

Sylvia Porter

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

Swami Vivekananda

Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

Swami Vivekananda

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Swami Vivekananda

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Swami Vivekananda

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Ron Gutman

When you smile you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they're not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you put in front of them.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

Rollo May

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

Stanley Tucci

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Sonia Gandhi

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.

Taylor Lautner

Probably the people around me and the people I care about. They are my motivation. That's probably what drives me to succeed. Family and friends.

Stanley Kubrick

I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

Stephen Colbert

Other people's deconstruction of your motivations doesn't help you do what you do. You can't swallow and think about swallowing at the same time.

Stefan Sagmeister

Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.

Sonia Sotomayor

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Sonia Sotomayor

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

Thomas Heatherwick

The British government - any government - is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

Tim Tebow

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Tim Brown

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

Tim Burton

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

Thomas Leonard

When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

Thomas Kinkade

The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.

William Shockley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is, in my opinion, good fundamental research; and this is more important than whether the motivation is purely aesthetic satisfaction on the part of the experimenter on the one hand or the improvement of the stability of a high-power transistor on the other.

William Shenstone

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

William Saroyan

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

William J. Clinton

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

William James

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.