Quotes & Sayings About Heroic Traits

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping. — Alan Alda

Frivolity is a stern taskmaster. — Bill Griffith

Strategy oversight is important in tuning and updating a dynamic digital strategy. — Pearl Zhu

Could things get any worse? Why, yes, little one. Be patient. — Morrissey

Hesitations're yeses or nos if the questioner already knows the answer. — David Mitchell

Clary knew what he was going to say next before he said it. That weapon. I want it. — Cassandra Clare

Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened. — Megan McCafferty

Perhaps the activity of discerning culture - sifting through it to highlight its most worthy and discard its most unredeemable - is as essential as the activity of making culture. — Brett McCracken

If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening ... — Charlie Munger

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. — Various