Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Walt Disney

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

John Ruskin

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

Deep inside himself, in a place he didn't often go, where he kept the things he didn't like to think about but dared not forget, he knew that was still alive somewhere, and somehow she was watching what he did, or at least looking in on him from time to time.

Orson Scott Card

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Nancy Reagan

The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.

Rick Pitino

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Abraham Lincoln

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Yoko Ono

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

James Merrill