Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Hardy

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up.

Tom Brokaw

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tina Thompson

We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game.

Tina Fey

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Tina Fey

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.

Tim Jackson

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.

Tim Kaine

Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.

Tim Kaine

If faith is your motivation, share that.

Tim Ferriss

It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

Tim Ferriss

Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.

Tim Ferriss

Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

Tim Ferriss

Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.

Sam Ewing

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

Sam Harris

Perhaps one day we will do “everything that we can to protect our people and the timeless values that we stand for.” But today, we won’t even honestly describe the motivations of our enemies. And in the act of lying to ourselves, we continue to pay lip service to the very delusions that empower them.

Sam Harris

It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

Saku Koivu

You always need younger guys if you're going to be successful in the long term.

Roger Federer

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.

Sam Levenson

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Sally Pearson

I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Sally Pearson

I'm really hard on myself as well, nothing is good enough for me in training. I always want more, I always want to give 100%. I use my training like a competition. I imagine these two girls next to me every time single time I'm going over those hurdles in training.

Sally Quinn

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel are secondary. Because fear is an enormous motivating force, many in the medium are afraid to make decisions, take chances, do anything innovative.

Rory Stewart

The point about democracy is not that it delivers legitimate, effective, prosperous rule of law. It's not that it guarantees peace with itself or with its neighbors. ... Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality.

Rosalind Russell

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Rosalind Russell

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

Rosa Parks

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Ron Santo

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

Ron Silver

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Susan Sarandon

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

Susan Glaspell

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

Susan Blackmore

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Susan Cain

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

Sunil Gavaskar

Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

Thomas a Kempis

Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do you wish to have all men your friends and benefactors? When shall your patience attain her crown if no adversity befalls you? If you are willing to suffer naught that is against you, how will you be the friend of Christ?