Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Abraham Maslow

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.

Abraham Maslow

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Abraham Lincoln

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

Abraham Lincoln

If we exchange one dollar, we both have one dollar each. But if we exchange one good thought, we both have two good thoughts

Abraham Lincoln

Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.

Abraham Lincoln

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Abraham Lincoln

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

Abraham Lincoln

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Abraham Lincoln

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Abraham Lincoln

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

I will do what I think is right and when I discover that it is wrong, I will change it.

Abraham Lincoln

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

Abraham Lincoln

Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

Abraham Lincoln

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

Abraham Lincoln

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

Alex Sanchez

How is love between two people a sin? Love isn't about gender; it's about two souls uniting.

Alex Shoumatoff

In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.

Alex O'Loughlin

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

Alex O'Loughlin

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

Alex O'Loughlin

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying.

Alex Steffen

For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

Alex Steffen

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Alex Steffen

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

Alex Steffen

I think we're going to start to see a new model of civic advocacy where people get together once in a while to protest, but it's more about an ongoing, sustained engagement in issues, networks and communities about which people care.

Alex Steffen

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Alex Pettyfer

We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer.

Alex Pettyfer

I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to make the movie, I don't think about any of that. I think about certain aspects like who's making the movie and who's gonna tell a story that I wanna be involved in, but I don't have that choice and I never have.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm so terrible. When it comes to talking to women, I'm the worst. I don't know what to say. I come over very, very geeky.