The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 2)

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five years old, used to sing at church. Or I'm that 15-year-old young lady who wanted to be grown and wanted to sing and couldn't wait to be smokin' a cigarette, you know?

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

Let me be clear to the Australian people, our emissions reductions policies will both protect our environment and seek to reduce the risk and hazard we are seeing today.

Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.

Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.

When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

I think things happened the way they did for a reason.

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.

The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me when I'm finished with it, that it moves me, that it can take me along with it and involve me in what its saying.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

Because my musical training has been limited, I've never been restricted by what technical musicians might call a song.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Work is no longer challenging.

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Being faithful in that which is another man's qualifies us to receive our own.

A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Doing fashion drawings was the only way I had to express myself when I was a teenager.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

It's amazing what you can learn to get used to.

When I started in fashion, I had already adopted the sailor-striped sweater as my uniform; that way, I wouldn't have to drive myself crazy trying to figure out what to wear.

I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

The economic tsunami has hit all airline employees. With the 2001 terror attacks, airline bankruptcies, pension terminations, loss of pay, changes in work rules - we're all working harder and longer than we used to.

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.