Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

David Myers

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Alan Greenspan

Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

Alan Greenspan

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

Chogyam Trungpa

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

Madeleine Albright

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

Bob Iger

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bill Gates

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

Jason Collins

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

January Jones

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

Janis Joplin

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

Ben Stein

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

Bob Marley

Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier

Elbert Hubbard

Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

Eileen Caddy

Why not make a habit of approaching life in the right spirit, joyously, expectantly, and with absolute faith that only the very best is for you?

Cam Gigandet

Why not do as much as you can, and learn as much as you can about each process?

Greg Anderson

When your friend and best client asks you to help his friend, you do it.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Odeya Rush

Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

Gabrielle Zevin

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.

Jared Diamond

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Brian Littrell

I snore. Just ask the others!

Kim Shaw

Everyone always asks me, 'Do you want to be famous... ' I never really thought about becoming famous. I just want to work, to be able to put out inspiring and good film and TV.

Larry Fitzgerald

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.