Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clay Aiken

Perseverance. I got cut twice. I got cut in Charlotte. I didn't have to go to Atlanta to audition. I could have said, "I'm not cut out for this." But I said, "I think I'm better than that, I can go try again." So I went to Atlanta and I made it through. Then I got cut the first time around. I could have told them I didn't want to come back for the Wild Card show but I did and look how far I got.

Clayton Christensen

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

D. A. Carson

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

D. H. Lawrence

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

Curly Howard

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Conor Oberst

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

David Foster Wallace

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

David Foster Wallace

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.

David Archuleta

Friends are the ones who will always have your back and their perspective on you doesn't change no matter what

Don Ameche

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Dylan O'Brien

The perfect date is the one where anything and everything goes wrong, but at the end of it, all you want is to see them again.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

Doug Stanhope

I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

Douglas Adams

Put away your worries, the world is a good and perfect place. It is in fact very easy.

Dorothea Lange

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

Doris Lessing

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

Donald Kennedy

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Dale Carnegie

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

Dale Carnegie

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Cristiano Ronaldo

If I can have the chance to be the best ever, then that would be perfect.

Craig Venter

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Craig Newmark

We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That's always entertaining. The deal is, it's a mixture of luck and persistence.

Craig Newmark

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

Claire McCaskill

If every crime victim had to have perfect judgment, we could empty our prisons.

Daniel Pinkwater

Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy.

Daniel Pipes

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Daniel Radcliffe

I have a very busy personality.