Example Quotes
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Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy.
Bill Gates
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Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
Richard Smalley
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The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.
Delbert L. Stapley
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As human rights throughout the world continue to be abused, Raoul Wallenberg stands as a courageous example that should inspire us all.
Elizabeth May
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I lead by example. But if I get pissed enough, I'll say something. It usually isn't rah-rah; it's more complaining.
Brian Urlacher
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There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.
Erik Brynjolfsson
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There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.
Esther Hicks
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The Orange Revolution was a powerful example of democracy around the world. The people of Ukraine are continuing to shape their own future.
Scott McClellan
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I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.
Teju Cole
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I am terrible with examples. I can never think of them when anybody asks for an example.
Shonda Rhimes
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
Elizabeth Bear
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Dana White came out very often in public saying I'm this and that; I'm sure it's also to play with my ego, to make me, for example, come out of retirement and say 'Oh ok, I'll fight for peanuts.' No, I'm not like that. I know the game.
Georges St-Pierre
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Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
George Washington
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One example is worth a thousand arguments.
William E. Gladstone
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I'm not saying everything out there is bad and toxic, but there are some things that are not scriptural. For example, some people don't understand that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Joseph Prince
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
Cate Blanchett
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Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
Michael Behe
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Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.
Samuel Rogers
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Our plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music.
Martin Luther
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I put messages out there that start with why and they talk about what I believe. They go on to demonstrate and give examples. If it resonates with others, those with whom it resonates will share it with their friends and say, "This inspired me. You should watch it. You should read this."
Simon Sinek
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Let us preach you, Dear Jesus, without preaching.... not by words but by our example.
Mother Teresa
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She doesn't want to end up like me. At least I'm giving someone an example not to follow.
Ned Vizzini
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I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
Rashida Jones
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I lead verbally, not by example.
Daryl Morey