861 private quotes tagged amazing

“Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.” — David Cameron

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“It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.” — Les Brown

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“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.” — Ben Stein

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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” — Harry S. Truman

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“When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things.” — Joe Namath

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.” — Conan O'Brien

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“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.” — Edwin Land

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“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?” — Abdul Kalam

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“My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.” — Beth Ditto

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“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.” — George S. Patton

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“With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic.” — Chris Brown

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“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.” — Karen Thompson Walker

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“Don't count out other amazing programming like Frontline. You will still find more hours of in-depth news programming, investigative journalism and analysis on PBS than on any other outlet.” — Gwen Ifill

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“I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.” — Tim DeKay

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“I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.” — LeBron James

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“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.” — Suze Orman

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“My stepdad provided me with an amazing childhood. I played outside like a normal kid, I rode my bike, I walked to school, but the happiest times were when I was acting.” — Demi Lovato

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“Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.” — Sam Rockwell

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“Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.” — Joe Jonas

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“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” — E. E. Cummings

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“No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.” — Christopher Walken

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“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” — Anna Quindlen

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