Ocupeak Quotes & Sayings

It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect. — Bohdi Sanders

It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. — Rick Santorum

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line. — John Harrison

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician. — Thomas Paine

The REAL American Dream is not about a garage full of new cars, winning the lottery, or retiring to a life of ease in Florida. It's about doing work that has meaning, work that makes a difference, and doing that work with people you care about. — Joe Tye

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals? — Brian Tracy

Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy ... .The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the city because they know the city; but it will always be an exceptional sort of citizen who has or claims the right to rule over ten cities, and these remote and altogether alien cities ... To make all politics cosmopolitan is to create an aristocracy of globe-trotters. If your political outlook really takes in the Cannibal Islands, you depend of necessity upon a superior and picked minority of the people who have been to the Cannibal Islands; or rather of the still smaller and more select minority who have come back. — G.K. Chesterton

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. — William Wordsworth

Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power. — Thomas Gordon

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. — Chinua Achebe

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense. — Martin Wolf

So you see, Roark though it is to be a religious edifice, it is also more than that. you notice that we call it the temple of the human spirit. We want to capture- in stone, as others capture in music- not some narrow creed, but the essence of all religion. and what is the essence of religion? The great aspiration of the human spirit toward the highest, the noblest, the best. the great life giving force of the universe. The heroic human spirit. — Ayn Rand

Cath didn't feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous new idea. — Ruthie Knox

He turned to me, full of a terrifying benevolence. — Edith Wharton

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it — Drake