Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Sellers

Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

Peter Salovey

I think in the coming decade we will see well-conducted research demonstrating that emotional skills and competencies predict positive outcomes at home with one's family, in school, and at work. The real challenge is to show that emotional intelligence matters over-and-above psychological constructs that have been measured for decades like personality and IQ. I believe that emotional intelligence holds this promise.

Peter Sagal

If self-driving cars are going to work - they're being tested now, as you know - the computers that drive them have to have lots of practice before they're allowed to get out in a real car on the roads.

Peter Schiff

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

Peter Schiff

The real bubble in China is in US Treasuries, in US dollars

Peter Schiff

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Peter Schiff

The United States is like the Titanic, and I'm here with the lifeboat trying to get people to leave the ship... I see a real financial crisis coming for the United States.

Peter S. Beagle

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Peter S. Beagle

I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

Peter Senge

An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision.

Peter Senge

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Peter Senge

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Peter Senge

In some ways clarifying a vision is easy. A more difficult challenge comes in facing current reality.

Peter Senge

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Senge

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

Peter Senge

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

Peter Piot

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

Peter Jacobson

I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.

Peter Jacobson

I've never done real sci-fi. I've never played an alien. I've never played some sort of superhero. Which I'd love to do!

Peter Jacobson

If you do an episode about something like transverse myelitis, it's a real disease that's out there, there are a lot of people that have it, and it's hard to get funding for them because people don't know about it. There are actually a lot of doctors that don't know about it. But if you do an episode of House, all of a sudden 15 million people are hearing the words, and it's an opportunity.

Peter Jackson

[While shooting close-ups] you study real eyes, you study how the light reflects in them, you study the back of the eye, you study the way irises reflect emotion. You go into great scientific detail.

Peter Jackson

There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.

Peter Jackson

To me, fantasy should be as real as possible. I don't buy into the notion that because it's fantastic, it should be unrealistic, because I think you have to have a sense of believing the world that you're going into.

Peter Chernin

The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

Peter Cameron

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

Peter Cameron

Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say "I love you." I think just the opposite—that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them.

Peter Capaldi

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Peter Carey

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Peter Carey

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Peter Carey

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

Pete Sampras

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.