In my case, if one out of five opportunities is interesting enough to work on, maybe one in five of those ends… — Sam Zell Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual… — James W. Prescott Copy Share Image
One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to… — Guy Steele Copy Share Image
A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind,… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Many organizations help businesses to stay on top of what's changing or likely to change. It's important for executives and managers who… — John E. McDonough Copy Share Image
Variable behaviour of the sun is an obvious explanation, and there is increasing evidence that Earth's climate responds to changing patterns of… — Nigel Weiss Copy Share Image
“You know, it sounds like you guys didn’t really think this all the way through. You plugged us into an equation and… — Maximum Ride in Maximum Ride School's Out - Forever by James Patterson Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
All survival situations revolve around a host of variables...Always adapt, think positive, and move forward. — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend. — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise. — Martin J. Whitman Copy Share Image
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything… — Faith Hunter Copy Share Image
There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment… — Ruth Rendell Copy Share Image
Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory… — Saul Gorn Copy Share Image
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past –… — Martin J. Whitman Copy Share Image
The chief point we must remember is that the great and rapid advance of the physical sciences took place in fields where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling… — David Shore Copy Share Image
Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in… — Peter York Copy Share Image
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety,… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with… — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
Teamwork remains a sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped because it is hard to measure (teamwork impacts the outcome of… — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
