All Quotes

As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.
‐‐ Jack Dangermond

As an organizer, I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
‐‐ Henry Cavill

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
‐‐ Deborah Sampson

As an owner, you have a choice. Do you want to adopt a vision that you think is real sharp and real cutting edge and could get you from good to great - has a chance - or do you want to just say the organization is not about that, and we're not going to try to adopt a new coaching philosophy and vision.
‐‐ Jeffrey Lurie

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson

As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.
‐‐ Paul McEuen

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
‐‐ Harold E. Varmus

As an undergraduate at Columbia, I went to the engineering school. I had a great deal of training in engineering and mathematics as well as subdiversified training. And then I went to the California Institute of Technology to do my Ph.D. in applied math.
‐‐ Robert C. Merton

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

As an undergraduate at UBC in Canada, I fell in love with economic theory. It was the right choice for me.
‐‐ Robert Mundell

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
‐‐ Robert T. Bakker

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
‐‐ David Eagleman

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
‐‐ Dinaw Mengestu

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.
‐‐ Grace Kelly

As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
‐‐ James Black

As and when I get into a relationship, I'll flaunt her to the world. I'm looking for a soul mate, and in any case, I'm not very much for casual dating. I'm such a simple guy away from this dating-shating business.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

As Android, iPhone and other mobile platforms grow, we are moving away from the page-based Internet. The new Internet is app centric and often message-centric.
‐‐ Keith Teare

As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.
‐‐ Roger Andrew Taylor

As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
‐‐ Byron Howard

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.
‐‐ Clive Sinclair

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
‐‐ Carter G. Woodson

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.
‐‐ Colin Baker

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.
‐‐ John Oliver

As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
‐‐ Albert Murray

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

As any journalist will tell you, there are few professional situations as vexing as when a friend becomes involved in a major story that you feel you must cover.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

As any mother knows, we just want our babies to feel better quickly, and we all do whatever we have to do to help them - no matter how much it inconveniences us or hurts our backs!
‐‐ Constance Marie

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
‐‐ Prince William

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
‐‐ Claire Messud

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.
‐‐ Benjamin Hoff

As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.
‐‐ Karen DeCrow

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.
‐‐ Anne Michaels

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.
‐‐ Michael Cunningham

As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.
‐‐ John Niven

As anyone who goes into dog-rescue knows, it is not a for-profit business, but the rewards are priceless for me.
‐‐ Emmylou Harris

As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
‐‐ Kara Swisher

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
‐‐ Cleveland Amory

As anyone who has read 'Sports Illustrated's Steve Rushin knows, it's quite possible to write an unreadable column without being a TV pundit. But if you want to be a consistently good columnist, you can't be on television.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness