It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.

Ruth Ross

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

Liz Phair

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Margaret Oliphant

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Carlos Ghosn

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? Four, calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg

Abraham Lincoln

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Dean Kamen

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Clarence Darrow

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Jennifer Aniston

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

Carter G. Woodson

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there

Antoine De SaintExupery, Flight