George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Engaged, enthusiastic, and loyal employees are pivotal drivers of growth and health in any organization.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Health
  • Growth
  • Organization

• Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Myself
  • Present
  • Macho

• I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Page

• I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • Man
  • Way

• Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Filmmaking

• Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Attractive

• It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Language

• Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • God
  • Love

• If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Doing

• Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Change
  • Forever

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

  

  Tacitus
  • Generosity
  • Ruin
  • Moderation

• The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Innocent
  • Victim
  • Out

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a bête noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Science
  • Theory

• This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name...

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Pleasure
  • Luck
  • Percent

• The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Up
  • May
  • Kids

• I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

  

  Josh Klinghoffer Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • Song
  • Created

• I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Stage
  • Figures
  • Readers