Putting Quotes - page 2

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. (Stephen Covey)
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. View quote
Leo Burnett
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. View quote
John Buchan
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give the faint squeak of mortality under my pressure. View quote
E. B. White
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. View quote
Brigitte Bardot
My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on. View quote
Coco Chanel
Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. View quote
Mark Twain
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain. (Christopher Columbus)
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Arrangement includes the putting of things in their proper places and the elegance of effect which is due to adjustments appropriate to the character of the work. Its forms of expression are these: ground plan, elevation, and perspective. ...All three come of reflexion and invention. View quote
Vitruvius
From these early beginnings, and from the fact that nature had... equipped their minds with the powers of thought and understanding, thus putting all other animals under their sway, they next gradually advanced from the construction of buildings to the other arts and sciences, and so passed from a rude and barbarous mode of life to civilization and refinement. View quote
Vitruvius
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. View quote
Renzo Piano
It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting. View quote
Christian Bale
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. View quote
Norm Crosby
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. View quote
Brenda Ueland
If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC. (Byron Dorgan)
SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage. View quote
Graeme Murphy
Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. View quote
Hattie McDaniel
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo. View quote
Mary Pickford
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