Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Chuck Jones

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Oprah Winfrey

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself

Nora Roberts

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Mark Twain

Great things can happen when you don't care who gets the credit.

Jay Graham

We want to reclaim what we think is ours. Winning the (CHC) title is one of the things that we want to accomplish this year. ... We just want to continue to play our game and let everyone else try to catch up.

Madeline Albright

What the Serb people really want to do is to be able to hold up their heads again and be a part of the new Europe. And this (Milosevic's arrest) is a step that needs to be taken to accomplish that.

Thomas A. Edison

There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.

John B. Hood

There is a limit to what we can do. If people can show us other things we might do that would be equally or more effective, we'd love to hear about that, but changes in attitudes do take time to accomplish in a society. We will commit to doing everything we can, within the resources we have.

Aaron Cook

When I face a left-handed lineup, it narrows down what I have to accomplish in that game. It simplifies my game plan.

Stefan Sagmeister

I run a design studio in New York. Every seven years, I close it for one year to pursue some little experiments, things that are always difficult to accomplish during the regular working year. In that year, we are not available for any of our clients. We are totally closed. And as you can imagine, it is a lovely and very energetic time.

Erin Traudt

Ultimately, customers want their business problems solved and the on-demand model provides another option to help accomplish that important and necessary feat.

David Sedaris

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Dave Barry

The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.

Ricky Gervais

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

Brent Weeks

If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Darren Shan

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

David Mitchell

If your words're true, they're armed.

David Sarnoff

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

David Puttnam

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

Alan Watts

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

Al Pacino

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.