What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour. — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
You don't need everybody to agree with you, but you do need a few people. And by this point I have a… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint. — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary.… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently. — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people in the right… — Edward Whitacre, Jr Copy Share Image
I find it so easy to read qualified commentators who are 180 degrees opposed to each other. — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image