Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Tillich

Our spirituality is the ground of our being.

Paul Davies

Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone, but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.

Patrick Dixon

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sea does the sweep of his eyes that he does, the one that goes from my head to my toes and back again and makes me feel that he's scanning the depths of my soul and teasing out my motivations and sins. It's worse than confession with Father Mooneyham. At the end of it, he says, "If you help, this will go faster.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Lynn Flewelling

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.

Hans Rosling

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Hans Rosling

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

Hans Rosling

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

Hans Rosling

Half of the energy is used by one seventh of the world's population.

Hans Rosling

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Hans Rosling

If you have democracy, people will vote for washing machines. They love them!

Hans Rosling

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Hans Rosling

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

Hans Selye

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Hamid Karzai

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

Grantland Rice

There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills.

Greg Bear

But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

Louis Pasteur

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Jim Valvano

A person really doesn't become whole, until he becomes a part of something that's bigger than himself.

Jim Valvano

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

M. Scott Peck

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

Lurlene McDaniel

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Matt Holliday

We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

Meg Wolitzer

Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

Maxine Hong Kingston

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxwell Maltz

Times will change for the better when you change.

Maxwell Maltz

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

Maxwell Maltz

One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.

Maxwell Maltz

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maxwell Maltz

Within you, whoever you may be, regardless of how big a failure you may think yourself to be, is the ability and the power to do whatever you need to do to be happy and successful.

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.

Maxwell Maltz

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.