Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.

There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I don't need a captain's band to lead a team to victory.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

I wanted to make a name for myself.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

Hire people who are smarter than you, and don't be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

Israel has been a stage on which American Jews have played out their fantasies of toughness - often from Martha's Vineyard.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I had a wonderful career.

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my exams and thought, 'I don't really want to do a degree.' I did philosophy with the Jesuits for about a year, and then I joined a bank. While I was there, I saw an ad in an Irish paper for radio announcers.

I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place if people understood about the rings of Saturn; I just think he finds physics extremely interesting. It brings him joy, and he wants to spread the love. I feel the same about economics.