Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.
‐‐ Stephen F. Lynch
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.
‐‐ Robert Reich
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney
Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
‐‐ Felix Baumgartner
Aviation constituted a new and possibly decisive element in preventing or fighting a war, and I was in a unique position to observe European aviation - especially in its military aspects.
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
‐‐ Tony Fernandes
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
‐‐ Eddie Rickenbacker
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.
‐‐ Freeman Dyson
Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart
Aviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
‐‐ Amelia Earhart
Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
‐‐ Mike Posner
Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.
‐‐ Kygo
Avishai my brother always says to the audience, 'If you weren't here, it would just be a rehearsal.' So it's important to me to acknowledge and engage them. I know that they are there for me, and I'm humbled by that.
‐‐ Anat Cohen
Avocados have a creamy texture, making them a healthier replacement for ingredients like butter and mayo in recipes, though they do contain a surprisingly large amount of fat - a whopping 30 grams per medium-sized avocado.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson
Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
‐‐ Abbie Hoffman
Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.
‐‐ Quintus Tullius Cicero
Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.
‐‐ Rick Pitino
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.
‐‐ Jon Scieszka
Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.
‐‐ Robert W. Service
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
‐‐ Satchel Paige
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
‐‐ Jim Davis
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
‐‐ Colin Powell
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere
Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.
‐‐ Shiv Khera
Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
‐‐ Richard Bach
Avoid running at all times.
‐‐ Satchel Paige
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
‐‐ Ford Frick
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
‐‐ Toussaint Louverture
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
‐‐ Hans Rosling
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
‐‐ John Eisenhower
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
‐‐ Helen Keller
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
‐‐ John Guare
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
‐‐ Michael Leunig
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time...', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
‐‐ Bo Bennett
Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
‐‐ Andrea Jung
Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
‐‐ Andrea Jung
Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us, and it's not going to be as hard to live up to that.
‐‐ Kelly Jones
'Awake' was just the most beautiful show. For most of the shooting, we didn't know if they were going to air. You never knew. We were just trying to make it the best it could.
‐‐ Daniela Bobadilla
Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.
‐‐ Frances Wright
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
‐‐ Tommy Chong
Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
‐‐ Queen Latifah
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
‐‐ John Thorn