Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thomas Nagel

If a psychological Maxwell devises a general theory of mind, he may make it possible for a psychological Einstein to follow with a theory that the mental and the physical are really the same. But this could happen only at the end of a process which began with the recognition that the mental is something completely different from the physical world as we have come to know it through a certain highly successful form of detached objective understanding. Only if the uniqueness of the mental is recognized will concepts and theories be devised especially for the purpose of understanding it.

Thomas E. Mann

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

Tom Peters

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

Tom Peters

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

Tom Robbins

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Tom Landry

The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.

Tom Ellis

One of the big parts of my decision-making process is knowing that when you're signing up for something, you're signing up for multiple seasons, should it be successful, and in theory, you want it to be successful, but you also want to be doing something that you're enjoying.

Tom Bergeron

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

Tom Baker

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

Toni Braxton

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

Steve Wozniak

When you're about 20 years old, you kind of think out - I figured out that it was better - less good to be successful and better to have a laughing life, laugh more than you frown all through your life. Because on the day you die, which one would you have said had the happier life, the better life? And so I put a lot of humor in my life.

Steve Wozniak

If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach.

Steve Garvey

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Steve Guttenberg

What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.

Steve Harvey

THE MORE PEOPLE YOU HELP BECOME SUCCESSFUL, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL YOU BECOME.

Steve Harvey

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

Steve Harvey

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

Stephen Elop

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,

Stephen Daldry

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to that, for a variety of reasons. It still shocks me how few films are written or made in England about working-class life, given that those are the people who go to movies.

Stephen Covey

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Stephen Covey

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common sense. I am embarrassed when people talk about the Covey Habits, and dislike the idea of being some sort of guru.

Stephen Covey

True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.

Stephen Covey

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

Stephen Covey

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

Stephen Covey

Private victories precede public victories.

Stephen Covey

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

Stephen Covey

Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

Stephen Covey

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

Stephen Covey

Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Viktor E. Frankl

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering

Vanessa Marano

Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.