Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Art is a mad search for individualism.

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.

Some people say hawaii is spoiled but I dont think so. Its modern. Its a part of todays world.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

Democracy thus French revolution was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.

I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again!

I am truly independently owned and operated.

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.

Like sand on the beach the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made the skills we have learned the actions we have taken.