Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Harvinder Kalirai

We're seeing a benign neglect in terms of the weakness of the Japanese yen. There's little reason for the Japanese to be worried because it seems the lower the yen gets the bigger the support it gives to exporters.

Steve Roach

Policy makers are doing their best to try and convince market participants that there is a benign resolution to all our problems. That may not be the case.

Manuel Pangilinan

Growth in core earnings will be benign as revenue growth moderates.

Joseph P. Bradley

The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the law of the Creator.

Michael Malone

The PPI numbers support recent evidence that we are in a benign inflationary environment,

Joseph Biden

We quite frankly have no policy now; there is no policy. I would not call it benign neglect; I would call it malign neglect.

Bill Gross

We think that inflation will be benign and may come down from these levels.

Vince Farrell

We had a euphoric day yesterday because the market thinks Mr. Greenspan is going to be benign today,

Robert Duncan

There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise.

Barclays Capital

The possibility for a non-benign solution to the dispute leaves open the risk for higher prices in the short term.

Juvenal

There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.

Aristotle

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Michael Birdwell

We're hoping that it will generate some interest and support so we can go back and finish up and settle the dispute once and for all, without a doubt.

Mike Gascoyne

Obviously it is the end of an era but nobody can dispute that Toyota has made a big step forward over the last two seasons.

Hans Hofmann

Nobody would dispute that I'm giving him a centrality he doesn't generally have.

Mandy Moore

I had just laid down to go to sleep and got up to use the restroom and I thought it was just like a dispute or something.

Rep. Lang

I had hoped to use my appointment to overcome the dispute over individuals. Unfortunately, my own appointment is now suddenly drawing unnecessary controversy which risks further undermining the commission's larger purpose.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

Chris Hamilton

We have sat down and done the figures, and the result is that there has been an increase of just under 10-per-cent on last year's sales. We're not up in purely money terms, just on ticket sales, but it's good news for the club.

David Bennett

We have to have a good week of practice. We've got to get back to fundamentals.

Craig Beesley

We have to go up there tomorrow and play good ball.

Mike Thomas

We have to get there, but we should be on our way (to the title game). There's other good teams up there, but we should have a good shot.

Jordan Leopold

We have to get off to a good start. It's one of those things of whoever wants it the most is going to end up getting it.

James Greer

We have to get better at getting through the full-court trap. We had been struggling with that, but we did a good job when we needed it.

Siv Meisingseth

We have normal traffic today and the prospects for tomorrow are good too.

Kay Runge

Whenever you have an urban library, there are parking issues. The good thing about our new location is the nearby ramps.

Allen Pritchett

We have to handle the road and crowd.

Brandon Lincoln

We were trying to stay poised; that was our main focus, to handle their runs. They're a talented team, so we knew they were going to have some game-changing runs in them. When they had those, we tried to remain poised and handle them as well as possible.

Katy McKim

We have reservations a year in advance. For those purposes we rent three vans to handle our traffic, 15-passenger - whatever we can get.

Scott Verplank

When I walked onto the green, I was happy to see that it was so close, ... I'm thinking, 'I can handle a shot like that.'

Tom Benson

In life, you're going to have a lot of problems. Everybody's got problems. Some is worse than others. Some is sickness. Some, like me, you've got problems that you don't like that come up. But you've got to handle them.

Ken Bell

We're just trying to get a handle on these private displays.

John Wilkins

The possibility of jail for that long; I don't think he could handle that, ... I'm sure it was drugs, mixed somewhat (with) coming-off effects, withdrawal. That would be tough on me ? to do something, then all of a sudden realize what I had done.

Brandon Sanderson

Control yourself. Become someone who can handle this.

Anne McLellan

were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

Eugene Ionesco

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Fran Wallis

I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Anthony Mizzi

If only lawyers could be sworn in like all the witnesses to tell the truth in a jury trial, so justice will not only be seen to be done but be done !

Andy Birchfield

I don't have any qualms about the short trial schedule. There was not time for the jury to get bored, I hope.

John Maloney

Obviously, we're disappointed that the jury didn't see it this time the way the jury saw it the last time.

Mark Barrett

he respects, as we respect, the verdict of the jury on that.

Brian Chavez

He had a trial by jury and that was his peers in his community,

Victor Schwartz

If these regulations are tough, and if they are sound, then there may be some wisdom to it. The real question is, is the standard better than a jury could come up with during a trial?

Mark Geragos

If they try to imprison her for longer than six months, she's got the right to a jury trial,

George Parnham

I think that speaks volumes to what this jury should do.

Thomas Bergstrom

It could have been a lot worse. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think the jury worked very, very hard...

Carlos Ghosn

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

Carlos Fuentes

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about the shortcomings of your society, you're very pessimistic about that society. And it's only when you speak truthfully about it that you show your faith in that society.

Charlie Crist

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

Charles Stanley

Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.

David Miliband

"I think the wonderment of seeing my two sons developing makes me incredibly optimistic about human potential. It makes you think: 'My goodness. It's a miracle that's going on here. What could the human race do together?"'

David Rakoff

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.

Byron Katie

For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

Jared Diamond

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Charles de Lint

I'm pretty much fixated on certain themes. Family, but it's family of choice as much as family of blood. Individuality, yes, but not at the cost of others' happiness. Be true to your friends. Remembering to find some wonder and hope in the world. Basically it boils down to: treat people like you'd like them to treat you, leave the world a little better than it was when you got here, respect others and stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Carlos Slim

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Judy Leiterman

Word's getting out. It will be interesting to see how many others will be able to pull it off.

Anderson Cooper

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

John Oates

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

George W. Bush

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Owen Arthur

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Michael Jackson

I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Zane Grey

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,