Event Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely.

Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

Change is a process, not an event.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

It is almost always the cover-up rather than the event that causes trouble.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Always be prepared to have the time of your life.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event.

You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it.

Small changes eventually add up to huge results.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance;

none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Failure is an event, never a person.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common.

If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world.

The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature.

I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television.

It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.

I look at directing as a sporting event.

It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

In my job, whenever I delivered a presentation I would rehearse several times before the actual event. In sport, it is important to be equally prepared about my opponents.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give them truthful answers as to why this event took place and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.