Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Drucker

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

Peter Drucker

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

Peter Drucker

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

Penelope Wilton

The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Paulo Coelho

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Paulo Coelho

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.

Martin Scorsese

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

Marisha Pessl

It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.

Marjane Satrapi

If you're not [Federico] Fellini you might make something very vulgar. Animation made it possible to maintain unity with all these different narratives.

Marjane Satrapi

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

Mariano Rivera

My father was strict and always taught me, no matter who it is, everybody is an uncle. To me, everybody was someone I respect like family. I grew up with that.

Marianne Moore

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Maria Sharapova

My style when I was younger was still unique to me. I didn't necessarily dress by the trends, but I was always aware of what was trendy at the time and how I could apply it to my own sense of style.

Meghan O'Rourke

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Max Planck

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

Max Lucado

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ has done for us, instead of we are saved by what we do for God.

Mavis Staples

My uncle was 16, in junior high, and he heard me singing and snatched me off the stage. I thought he was happy and was going to pat me on the head and say I was good. But he took me home and told my grandmother this youngin' was at school singing the blues.

Max Baucus

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate.

May Sarton

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

May Sarton

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

May Sarton

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

May Sarton

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

Maureen Johnson

Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.

Matthew Scully

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

Matt Reeves

One of the things I thought coming into the franchise, what I thought was a unique gift: you hear so much of these reboots, remakes, re-whatevers, and the thing about them is that a lot of them are retellings.

Maynard James Keenan

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Maya Angelou

If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

Matt Wagner

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

Matt Smith

There's something very intimate about taking someone's work, turning it over and unpicking it. In the same way people have unique handwriting people have a sewing style. You do start building a fantasy relationship with the person.

Marianne Williamson

Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.