Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred North Whitehead

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

Alfred North Whitehead

The motive of success is not enough.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Attain the unattainable.

Alec Baldwin

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

Alec Baldwin

Success begets success. I've been offered a lot of movies now that '30 Rock' has been successful.

Aldo Leopold

To those who know the speech of hills and rivers straightening a stream is like shipping vagrants—a very successful method of passing trouble from one place to the next. It solves nothing in any collective sense.

Aldo Leopold

The most important characteristic of an organism is that capacity for internal self-renewal known as health. There are two organisms whose processes of self-renewal have been subjected to human interference and control. One of these is man himself (medicine and public health). The other is land (agriculture and coservation). The effort to control the health of land has not been very successful.

Albert Einstein

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Albert Einstein

If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Abhishek Bachchan

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

Aberjhani

Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.

A. Scott Berg

The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

Aeschylus

Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

Aeschylus

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Success is man's god.

Agatha Christie

Achievement brings with it its own anticlimax.

Vonda Shepard

Success was overnight, but it was a very long night.

Jane Addams

It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

Jan Cameron

To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Janet Reno

The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?

Jane Harman

Many women have been successful at breaking the glass ceiling only to find a layer of men.

Jane Harman

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Gillette is one of those companies where it's about success, and that's who I want to partner myself with.

I find success with going back and forth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I feel like I owe something to America, as it is where I found success.

Gilbert Arenas

I didn't have any idea (the success would happen),

You have to have a product or service that offers customers a unique advantage over the competition. Some people think it has to be price, but only one person can have the lowest price, and the person with the lowest price isn't necessarily the most successful.

Miley Cyrus

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

Busta Rhymes

I love hip-hop, because you can do this like that and still be super successful! You ain't gotta hold your tongue.