Operationalized Quotes & Sayings

Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared. — David Mamet

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news. — Steven Pinker

I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. — Henry Miller

Love to me, God, this is so difficult ... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.' — Kate Winslet

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. — Terry Pratchett

All Bridget Jones did was give us a word for it - singleton - which was the worst possible thing. — Daisy Donovan

I'm a child of the early nineties. Eddie Vedder and my right hand gave me my first orgasm. — Tiffany Reisz

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals. — Robert Pozen

Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary. — Anton Chekhov

It is better to change an opinion than to persist in a wrong one. — Socrates

A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character. — Brendan Daly

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. — Tiffany Madison

Silence hung around the corners, draped like spider webs across all surfaces and hanging like smog in the air. — Jennifer Perry

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart. — James MacDonald

Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level? — Muhammad Yunus

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please. — Henry Mancini

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it. — Naomi Watts