Editor Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The culture precedes positive results.

It doesn't get tacked on as an afterthought on your way to the victory stand. Champions behave like champions before they're champions: they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Good talent with bad attitude equals bad talent.

Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Invest in great relationships, they will pay a lifetime of dividends.

People thrive on positive reinforcement.

They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

Failure is part of success, an integral part.

Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings.

Only one thing endures and that is character.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people.

The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

‎In every crisis there is a message.

Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Many people erroneously think they have only one chance to succeed, and if they miss that chance, they are doomed to failure. In fact, most people have several opportunities to succeed.

For me the starting point for everything - before strategy, tactics, theories, managing, organizing, philosophy, methodology, talent, or experience - is work ethic. Without one of significant magnitude, you're dead in the water.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

Travel is the most intense mode of learning.

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

There is no civil nor religios law, that has broken, nor can break the bond of fraternity which nature has established between men.

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur.

He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

The Complex of color...every colored man feels it sooner or later. It gets in the way of his dreams, of his education, of his marriage, of the rearing of his children.

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time: pills or stairs.

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man.

We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success.

The view after seventy is breathtaking.

What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

Courage is not the absence of fear...

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

If you see players who hate practice, their coach isn't doing a very good job.

A small speckled visitor Wearing a crimson cape Brighter than a cherry Smaller than a grape A polka-dotted someone Walking on my wall A black-hooded lady In a scarlet shawl.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.