Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Negroponte

One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the less likely it is to harbor innovative thinking. Common and deep-seated beliefs, widespread norms, and behavior and performance standards are enemies of new ideas. Any society that prides itself on being harmonious and homogeneous is very unlikely to catalyze idiosyncratic thinking. Suppression of innovation need not be overt. It can be simply a matter of peoples walking around in tacit agreement and full comfort with the status quo.

Ne-Yo

I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

Neal A. Maxwell

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.

Mr. T

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've go to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

Muhammad Ali

The worst man is the one who sees himself as the best.

Mitch McConnell

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

Mark Victor Hansen

Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

Mark Batterson

Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.

Mike Colter

We pride ourselves on all being unique shows.

Greg Peterson

[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the few pots on your front porch. Creating your name helps to build a sense of place within your neighborhood as well as pride in your accomplishments. By naming your farm you give it a life of its own. Be creative and come up with a name that inspires and makes people smile, like my friend Laura's "Wish We Had Acres," the Fairy Tale inspired "Jack's Bean Stalk" or my "Urban Farm.

Jean de la Bruyere

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Jean de la Bruyere

The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

Jean Baudrillard

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

Jay London

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

Camryn Manheim

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

James Earl Jones

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Paul Henderson

Pride is about the ugliest trait somebody can have.

Paul Haggis

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

Pat Conroy

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

Jurnee Smollett

There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

Julia Roberts

It's my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it's a luxury on a level that I didn't even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.

Julia Quinn

Am I not allowed to have my pride? Or is that an emotion reserved for the elite?

Paul Gleason

If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.

Paul Giamatti

Maybe it's because I have too much pride or self-respect, but I thought, `Why does a guy who has thinning hair and who is overweight have to be a loser or a joke?'

Patrick Rothfuss

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

Patrick Rothfuss

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

Patrick Rothfuss

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Patrick Rothfuss

Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

Lea Salonga

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed To clothe the nakedness of need,- Where farmer folk in silence meet,- I turn my bell-unsummoned feet; I lay the critic's glass aside, I tread upon my lettered pride, And, lowest-seated, testify To the oneness of humanity; Confess the universal want, And share whatever Heaven may grant. He findeth not who seeks his own, The soul is lost that's saved alone.

John Green

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

P. D. James

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued and prejudice overcome?

Ovid

Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of the fair.