We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I've always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
2015 was obviously a great year. I achieved a few of my long-standing goals, which is very rewarding. I'm still working hard… — Kevin Anderson Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Chekhov used to correspond with aspiring writers, and once he gave this advice to Maxim Gorky when he was encouraging him to… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A scientist sets out to conquer nature through knowledge - external nature, external knowledge. By these means he may split the atom… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now"… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It is also right that we continue to consult with front line workers and the public to ensure that targets are reasonable… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Well what are our geopolitical objectives? First, that North America be peaceful, prosperous, dominated by the United States. Second, that no nation… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Does it make sense for the U.S. to expend hundreds of billions of dollars to mount a new Apollo-style program to return… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
You should diligently play scales and fingerpractices. There are many, however, who believe they'll achieve all, by practicing daily on technique for… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
On the cautionary side, Universal Jurisdiction could be used to achieve some kind of ideologically motivated criminalisation of 'the other' that would… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I… — Keith Lazelle Copy Share Image
If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Hard, withering toil only can achieve a name; and long days and months and years must be passed in the chase of… — Donald Grant Mitchell Copy Share Image
A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public schools aren't… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
I am personally committed to helping Israelis and Palestinians achieve a peace agreement. With determination, compromise, and the belief that peace is… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Yoga is as old and traditional as civilization, yet it persists in modern society as a means to achieving essential vitality. But… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to… — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it.… — Kristin Chenoweth Copy Share Image
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in… — Gilbert Simondon Copy Share Image
