334 quotes found
“Necessity who is the mother of our invention.”
“If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.”
“Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.”
“I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.”
“Accurate information is a key part of motivation.”
“Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and r...”
“To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.”
“Love makes the wildest spirit tame and the tamest spirit wild.”
“I tried to treat them like me and some of them weren't.”
“I believe in using words not fists.”
“We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.”
“Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.”
“I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses.”
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
“Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.”
“Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.”
“Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.”
“All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."”
“Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason not that you have no reason for living.”
“A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.”
