Quotes 721 till 740 of 2174.
-
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
1989 speech on the history of the microcomputer industry. [1] -
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
-
I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.
-
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
-
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
-
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
-
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
-
I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
-
I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race.
-
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
-
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Up From Slavery (1901) -
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
-
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
-
I love opposition that has convictions.
-
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
-
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
-
I never was on the dull, tame shore,
But I loved the great sea more and more.The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
-
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
All great-grandmother famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 37)
