Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dhani Jones

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

Dhani Jones

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

Dhani Jones

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others.

Dhani Harrison

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Dhani Harrison

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.

Dhani Harrison

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

Diablo Cody

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

David Brooks

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

David Brooks

The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

David Brooks

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

David Brooks

Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one.

David Brooks

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

David Brooks

The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.

David Allan Coe

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

David Amram

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

David Alan Grier

I think Chelsea Handler is the funniest woman.

David Alan Grier

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

David Almond

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

David Agus

We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before.

David Allen

Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.

David Allen

Frankly, I'm more of a researcher, teacher,motivat or, and coach than I am an entrepreneur.

David Allen

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

David Allen

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

David Allen

We suffer the stress of infinite opportunity: There are so many things that we could do, and all we see are people who seem to be performing at star quality. It's very hard not to try to be like them. The problem is, if you get wrapped up in that game, you'll get eaten alive. You can do anything-but not everything. The universe is full of creative projects that are waiting to be done. So, if you really care about quality of life, if you want to relax, then ... control your aspirations. That will simplify things. Learning to set boundaries is incredibly difficult for most people.

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Nick Harkaway

When the time comes to work, I work.

Paul Davies

When the three of us are on, we're really tough. There are not a lot of teams that can keep up with us when we play like that.

Abraham Lincoln

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling.

Abraham Lincoln

You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

Abraham Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.