The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
~By Thomas J. Peters ~
Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.
~By Raul Julia ~
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
~By John Adams ~
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
~By David Bowie ~
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work.
~By Jodie Foster ~
I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.
~By Gilbert White ~
The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.
~By James Lind ~
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.
~By Estelle Morris ~
The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.
~By Kelly Miller ~
Yes I'm still working, but my life's no longer filled with it.
~By Tony Curtis ~
With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.
~By Bram Cohen ~
With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.
~By Scott Reed ~
Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause.
~By Ryan Seacrest ~
Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force.
~By Charlie Norwood ~
Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.
~By Lee Ryan ~
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
~By Sophia Loren ~
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
~By Edward P. Morgan ~
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
~By Charles de Lint ~
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.
~By Christy Turlington ~
The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.
~By Orhan Pamuk ~
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
~By Confucius ~
Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.
~By Keith Henson ~
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
~By Gustav Krupp ~
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
~By Charles Farrar Browne ~
If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
~By Karel Capek ~
I'm now doing three things: concerts, conducting, and teaching, and they each support each other. I learn to see things from different perspectives and listen with different ears. The most important thing that you need to do is really listen.
~By Itzhak Perlman ~
There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.
~By Gloria Estefan ~
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
~By Anselm Kiefer ~
With money, who needs friends?
~By Frank Gorshin ~
Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
~By George A. Romero ~
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
~By Golda Meir ~
I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.
~By Kenneth More ~
As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.
~By Fritz Sauckel ~
I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
~By Michael Landon ~
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
~By Charles Dickens ~
I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.
~By Dave Winfield ~
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
~By Laura Dern ~
It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
~By Vida Blue ~
People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back.
~By Bruce Hornsby ~
The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
~By Damon Hill ~
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~By Abigail Adams ~
He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
~By Sally Kellerman ~
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
~By William Cowper ~
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.
~By Laurent Fabius ~
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
~By Jackie Collins ~
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
~By Jessica Biel ~
Sports is like a war without the killing.
~By Ted Turner ~
They have to exist or not in their own right. I mean, with kids, you don't say, 'Which is your favourite,' or 'Which did you enjoy bringing up the best?'
~By Albert Finney ~
I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
~By Maria Monk ~
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
~By Gary Cherone ~
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
~By Christine Lavin ~
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
~By William H. Seward ~
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
~By Sergio Aragones ~
Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.
~By Liam Gallagher ~
He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.
~By Stijn Streuvels ~
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
~By Louise Brown ~
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Without humility there can be no humanity.
~By John Buchan ~
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
~By Roy Romer ~
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.
~By Richard Cecil ~
I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
~By Chris Bell ~
Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.
~By Anne Heche ~
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
~By Walt Whitman ~
It was so difficult for the fans to understand my problems with baseball.
~By Curt Flood ~
I just love the storyline, I thought it was hilarious - I loved that part when we opened the door, we all look ahead and we have to look down and see that we're actually dealing with this little boy who did this horrible thing of ordering a wife through e-mail.
~By Caroline Dhavernas ~
He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.
~By Jane Birkin ~
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
~By Mike Myers ~
I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.
~By Neil Young ~
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.
~By Katie Holmes ~
If people associate me with a region, that's fine with me.
~By Robert Morgan ~
I would worry if people always associated me with Larry Sokolov.
~By Ron Livingston ~
They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high.
~By Gregory Hines ~
I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
~By John Schlesinger ~
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
~By Randy Harrison ~
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