Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Peters

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

Steve Garvey

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

Tony Hsieh

Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).

Tony Kushner

Broadway remains the closest thing we have to a national theatre, the place where the greatest number of people can potentially see new work. For an American playwright to say it doesn't matter is simply to capitulate to the current situation.

Steve Ballmer

And then you take a look at Spaces, there is this great innovation that came out of nowhere. We have the number one blogging site in the world because of the innovation that's there.

Stanislav Grof

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

Spike Jonze

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

Spike Lee

I consider Madonna a friend, and she sure knows how to work the publicity machine. Of course, I don't have breasts. If I did have, I'd be in the number one spot over Madonna.

Sigmund Freud

Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.

Sigmund Freud

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.

Steven Pressfield

Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

Steven Pinker

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

Steven Pinker

The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.

Steven Pinker

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

Sun Tzu

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

Rico Love

I'm very competitive; it's not enough just to have a few number ones. I want to have 200.

Richard Stengel

The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

Sylvia Earle

The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.

Sylvia Earle

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Suzy Bogguss

The large venue gives me the thrill that comes from the power in numbers.

Scott Adams

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Ralph Lauren

I’ve always been about style for people, not ‘You’re going to wear this outfit,’... It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

Donald Rumsfeld

and we have worked over a number if not all of their terrorist training camps.

and was seen by several different individuals at a number of locations.

And whoever replaces him as number two, we will go after him as well.

First of all, I have to say that I am not opposed to seatbelts. But, when you put seatbelts on a bus, you effectively reduce the seating number on the bus.

There's probably a number of reasons for it.

As the numbers grow, our scholarships grow, too. Without the grant, we could not do it.

This number may be a touch better than expectations.

Steve Allen

We should be able to get more numbers out here to see this, because this is a big event.