Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Diet is a matter of personal preference, but if you're interested in the advanced states of meditation, eating mammals should be avoided.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
“But we always avoided talking about these things—difficult things—and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences? — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Fast movement during exercise does not produce fast muscles, or strong muscles, or large muscles, it produces only one thing, a thing… — Arthur Jones Copy Share Image
When I was at primary school, we had this theory that if you ate an egg, it meant you'd get pregnant and… — Erin O'Connor Copy Share Image
Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Personally, I attach great importance to research in fundamental sciences because I believe that no applied or developmental research can do without… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
It is a way to avoid difficulties, but whenever you avoid difficulties and challenges you have avoided growth also. Married people never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think he could have made most of the trips and gone to most of the fund-raisers if he would have avoided… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others'… — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Vetting and verifying information is one thing. Having our government sending out conflicting messages to the American people when conflict can be… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
“Indeed, for the last three years, he had carefully avoided her, as a result of the natural cowardice so characteristic of the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided.… — Gordon Moore Copy Share Image
Once you feel avoided by someone, never disturb them again. Because the one who think that you are disturbing them, will never… — Anurag Prakash Copy Share Image
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It was a tough press conference for President Bush. He spent the first ten minutes trying to pronounce Fallujah. ... Bush insisted… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image