High Quotes

• Innovation is the running theme and spirit of the policies adopted by the Chinese government, and it is the banner that we will always hold high.

  

  Li Keqiang
  • Running
  • Chinese
  • Innovation

• One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• The Reform Party does not, however, equate 'high profile' with electability.

  

  Preston Manning
  • High
  • Party

• Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Bad

• Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

  

  John Coleman
  • History
  • Bad
  • Science

• If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • Marine

• One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?

  

  Ann Turner
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Past

• I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

  

  Carol W. Greider
  • School
  • Fun
  • Style

• If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
  • Good
  • High
  • Support

• We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Strong
  • Action
  • Quality

• I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Work
  • Confidence
  • Risk

• I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

  

  Joe Greene
  • School
  • Desire
  • Couple

• I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Believe
  • High

• There are moments when I dare not think of it, but there are others when I rise in spirit to where she ever dwells; then I can thank God that I love the noblest lady in the world, the most gracious and beautiful, and that there was nothing in my love that made her fall short in her high duty.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • World
  • God
  • She

• I went to public high school in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I certainly wore a lot of makeup in high school. I experimented with a cat eye for a semester, and then, you know, a strong red lip because Courtney Love in Hole was all the rage.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • School
  • Strong
  • Red

• Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Bad
  • Hope

• There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Time
  • Rock

• The fact of the matter is, particularly when covering a campaign, which is a very high-speed story, it's incredibly unusual for the reporter to be in the same place as the dateline when the story is filed.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • High

• When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • School
  • College
  • Band

• I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • High

• We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility; but there is one high poetic fancy in the

  

  Peter Medawar
  • High
  • Science
  • Air

• As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Wish
  • Serious
  • Romantic

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