Esslerlaw Quotes & Sayings

Sigmund Freud said that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great. John — Dale Carnegie

This entire ordeal taught me a valuable lesson. People are important-not things. I was no longer keeping up with the Joneses, material things or lots of money; that mattered very little to me. Life isn't about having, is about being. — Silvia Corradin

You don't have to be the best in the world every time you go out there. You just have to be better than one guy. — Andre Agassi

The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate. — Ann Druyan

Life was just a tire swing. 'Jambalaya' was the only song I could sing. Blackberry pickin', eatin' fried chicken, And I never knew a thing about pain. Life was just a tire swing. — Jimmy Buffett

Unsaid was her conviction that all this was in preparation for some future endeavor. But what? — Sam Wellman

You will ride the Tao
toward the concrescence
and will be able to live in the light
of its anticipation. — Terence McKenna

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. — John P. Kotter

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. — John Ruskin

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional. — James Cromwell

Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian — Deborah Moggach