A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. A visionary company… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists… — River Phoenix Copy Share Image
But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I get guilty when I spend money on silly things like clothes and stuff. Having experienced a completely different extreme of wealth,… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
Some of the most intriguing new research is in the area of extreme weather events and rainfall. A recent study by German… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When Abba Anthony thought about the depths of the judgments of God, he asked, 'Lord, how is it that some die when… — Anthony the Great Copy Share Image
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Everybody is afraid to touch the topic of religion, especially with the extreme muslims. It's such a touchy subject. You can attack… — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
I bear to the wisdom of Sir Philip Sidney, who said that next to hunting he liked hawking worst. However, though he… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think… — John Amaechi Copy Share Image
When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days,… — Csanad Szegedi Copy Share Image
Just as outright euphoria is often a sign of a market top, fear is for sure a sign of a market bottom.… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone… — Kelvin Ogilvie Copy Share Image
At issue here is a basic law which enables the Supreme Court to quash laws in extreme cases. Up until now, this… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job… — Julien Temple Copy Share Image
Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
One thing I try to do with my work is to show that people who have extreme fetishes or who exist outside… — Bruce LaBruce Copy Share Image
Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good.… — Taissa Farmiga Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I got a sense of the amazingness of ordinary life, and I became aware of the marvel that we're around to begin… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image