Maurice Strong Quotes

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

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• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Parents
  • Cuban

• I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Natural
  • Dress
  • National

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Question

• I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Science
  • Beginning

• It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Support
  • Tobacco

• I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Make
  • Crowd
  • Teammates

• I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Beautiful
  • Body
  • See

• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • History
  • Man
  • Old

• I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Dream
  • Loved

• Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • You
  • Young

• Grosser light vanishes into eternal raysOf all-pervading Cosmic Joy.From Joy we come,For Joy we live,In the sacred Joy we melt.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Live
  • Light
  • Joy

• I told Johnson and old colleagues on Capitol Hill that we had two clear choices. Either win the Vietnam war in a relatively short time, say within a year, or pull out all our troops and come home.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Home
  • War

• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • World
  • Lost
  • Imagination

• Meaning is found in relationship. - Meaning is the relationship of the foreground figure to the background.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Relationship

• Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Leadership
  • Coaching

• If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

  

  Alexander Downer
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• I don't know the secret of 'Mission: Impossible''s success. If I did, I'd have probably produced a couple of TV series, made myself rich, and retired!

  

  Peter Graves
  • Success
  • Couple

• My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Duty

• There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]

  

  David Mason
  • Business
  • Happy
  • Question

• Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

  

  Maurice Strong