Few Quotes
- Page 47The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.
Jean Charest
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark
That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences.
Joe Henderson
We got to do a few things with President Clinton. To be invited to Washington again to play with Ashanti and all those other cool people there in front of President Bush and the rest of the world feels awesome. I'm really looking forward to going.
Darius Rucker
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
Eric Liu
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John le Carre
For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom.
John Sexton
Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.
Ron Kind
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
Jo Ann Emerson
I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.
Martin Scorsese
Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
Jonathan Brown
People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very few songs that I can think of where I remember the words.
Brian Eno
I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.
Dave Pelzer
Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
Shawn Fanning
There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
Dwight L. Moody
The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.
Robert Sternberg
I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.
Kevin Pietersen
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'
Mitch Daniels
The South is like my favorite pair of blue jeans. It's shrunk some, faded a bit, got a few holes in it. it just might split at the seams. It doesn't look much like it used to, but it's more comfortable, and there's probably a lot of wear left in it.
John Shelton Reed