Words matter. These are the best About Quotes from famous people such as Buddy Valastro, Daniel H. Pink, Aldous Huxley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Adele, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.
Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
My life is full of drama, and I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like.
You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn’t lived long enough to experience. That’s why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.
It’s all about people. It’s about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.
There’s something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.
Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Even if I’m talking about something that’s negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.
Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
I’m passionate about learning. I’m passionate about life.
Eskimo: ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ Priest: ‘No, not if you did not know.’ Eskimo: ‘Then why did you tell me?’
Life is too short and too sweet to complain about the silly things.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.
Leadership is not about you; it’s about investing in the growth of others.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.
If you are confident about yourself and wear what you love, you will exude a style of your own.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster.
Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.
At the end of the day, it’s all about money.
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
Life is about growing and improving and getting better.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
It’s all about the experience and having a good time and connecting with the fans.
On the course, I sometimes eat a little sandwich or a slow-release energy bar – one on the front nine and one on the back nine. You’re out there five hours, so you have to keep eating. You’re going to burn at least 1,000 calories. I’ll try to take in about 400-600 calories during a round and drink water.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
The biggest lie about getting older is that excitement and growth end with youth.
Identity in America is complicated but it’s also simple: it’s about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.
Life is all about having a good time.
Honesty and loyalty are key. If two people can be honest with each other about everything, that’s probably the biggest key to success.
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
I prefer to be alive, so I’m cautious about taking risks.
Cinema is not only about making people dream. It’s about changing things and making people think.
The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
If my leg falls off, I’ll get a prosthetic. There’d be no deep sadness about. I’d just get on with it! It’s called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It’s about being better than you used to be.
You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.
Fashion is more about taste than money – you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it’s all about the fit. I do the alterations myself – I’m quite a seamstress – it’s the influence of my Hungarian mother.
