Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

Your fortune stateth: You will be surprised by a loud noise.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main,

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

I am an artist? I am here to live out loud.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth.

I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i.e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Swipple's Rule of Order: He who shouts the loudest has the floor.

Which way is the ocean?;"the ever quotable Grandma E, while visiting St. Louis.

May a hundred thousand midgets invade your home singing cheesy lounge-lizard versions of songs from The Wizard of Oz.

Your fortune stateth: Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

During American History class: Jeff B.: The Red Death is coming in April! (About 15 minutes later, loud music starts in the room next door.) Jeff: The Red Death is upon us!

I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

Benji: (Really LOUD) "I LOVE subtlety!" Heather: "Okay, just shout that out why don't you?

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. Success | Bill Gates quote

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

You will be surprised by a loud noise.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Louis the XVI knew how to love, pardon, and die: had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign.

Your fortune stateth: Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Actions lie louder than words.

The chicken that clucks the loudest is the one most likely to show up at the steam fitters' picnic.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.

I smell good today and my hair is not very loud.

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of think he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, This I am today, that I will be tomorrow Louis L'Amour

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you can do. Attitude determines how well you do it.