Their Quotes

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.