The Business story is designed to trigger the listener to take an effective action. If it doesn't, the story fails. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
If you aren’t where you want to be or you haven’t achieved all you hope to achieve, the reason most likely resides… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To take the place of emigration, and with the prior approval of the Führer, the evacuation of the Jews to the East… — Reinhard Heydrich Copy Share Image
“People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.' — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The word seek is a verb. Are you treating it as such in your life? If you seek change, success, or love,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It's the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for… — The Miz Copy Share Image
Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that's going to… — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
I wonder where a guy, an everyday Joe like myself can find a little action. — Beetlejuice Copy Share Image
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you… — Michael Glatze Copy Share Image
For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should… — G. Wilson Knight Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
We do agree that our country must take action to address climate change. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put… — Omar Ahmad Copy Share Image
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this,… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love. — Laozi Copy Share Image
