Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
Bill Owens
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
Sun Myung Moon
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.
John Yoo
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.
Felix Frankfurter
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Paulo Coelho
The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
Alan Hansen
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
Steven Seagal
Silence is a source of great strength.
Lao Tzu
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Thomas B. Macaulay
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no 'need' for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet.
Gary L. Francione
I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
Taylor Swift
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.
David Oyelowo
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.
David Sedaris
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion.
Nelson Mandela
An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'
Lewis Black
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
Orson Pratt
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
Julius Caesar
Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.
Julie Burchill
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
Arthur O'Shaunessey
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny Youngman
Virtue herself is her own fairest reward.
Silius Italicus, Punica
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates, Epidemics
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.
Josh Henderson
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
Ultimately love is everything.
M. Scott Peck
Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
Maya Angelou
It has long been a grave question whether any government, not too strong for the liberties of its people, can be strong enough to maintain its existence in great emergencies
Abraham Lincoln
I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
Jarvis Cocker
God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
Xenophanes
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden
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