Proximity and closeness are not the same.
THI BUI Má leaves me but I'm not alone, and a terrifying thought creeps into my head. Family is now somethi...
THI BUI Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action...
TONY ROBBINS The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It...
TONY DUNGY People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
TONY ROBBINS As an engineer, you learn there is a solution to every problem. It may take you a while, but eventua...
TONY CARDENAS Be a doer and not a critic.
TONY BLAIR It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
TONY ROBBINS It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
TONY ROBBINS How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
TONY ROBBINS There's always a way - if you're committed.
TONY ROBBINS Live with passion!
TONY ROBBINS For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
TONY ROBBINS I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That's a double whammy there. I constantly have to check...
TONY CARDENAS The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
TONY ROBBINS Age does take it out of you, and I haven't the energy I had before. Sometimes I have breakfast a...
TONY BENN My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong allian...
TONY BLAIR If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
TONY ROBBINS The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ...
TONY ROBBINS Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
TONY ROBBINS It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
TONY ROBBINS For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It...
TONY IOMMI My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faith...
TONY BLAIR For instance, I always have one hanging in Budapest in the mayors office.
TONY CURTIS If I was called back to 'Grand Budapest 2,' a prequel or whatever, I'm there. I'm th...
TONY REVOLORI The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeli...
TONY SNOW Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
TONY BENN At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my ...
TONY BRADMAN There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. ...
TONY DANZA I am all for cracking down on inappropriate digital behaviour. Too often the connected world is an e...
TONY PARSONS Families represent the basic building blocks of our society, and primary care a foundational piece o...
TONY TAN A buoyant, positive approach to the game is as basic as a sound swing.
TONY LEMA The studio are making a lot of good noises about 'Bunker Hill;' so it would be great if that...
TONY CURRAN I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it'...
TONY BENN All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who...
TONY ABBOTT For most of the Latinos in our nation, merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would mean one c...
TONY CARDENAS We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r...
TONY STEWART I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when...
TONY HILLERMAN You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir...
TONY DORSETT I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Br...
TONY RANDALL If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
TONY ABBOTT I'm a born-again Christian, but that's not the coat that I wear. It's just how my heart&...
TONY VINCENT Everything's not going to go perfect. You're going to have some losses that you're going...
TONY DUNGY Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.
TONY VINCENT I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa...
TONY BUZAN Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equale...
TONY CAMPOLO The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like ...
TONY BENN Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
TONY BLAIR I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen the...
TONY FADELL Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting ...
TONY MARTENS Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
TONY DELISO Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
TONY DELISO Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your fu...
TONY CAMPOLO We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
TONY BENN The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
TONY BENN I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr....
TONY BENN Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
TONY BUZAN The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right ti...
TONY BUZAN I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
TONY BLAIR To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire...
TONY DORSETT Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
TONY RICHARDSON My mother's obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in th...
TONY MARTIN I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.
TONY ALESANDRA It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangero...
TONY BENN A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference ...
TONY BENN Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to ob...
TONY BUZAN It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've...
TONY HANCOCK Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment...
TONY BENN All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
TONY BENN I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: ...
TONY CAMPOLO One gift creates appreciation, many gifts create expectation.
TONY BRIGHT Be smart, be intelligent and be informed.
TONY ALESANDRA Everything starts with yourself -- with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with y...
TONY DORSETT All war represents a failure of diplomacy
TONY BENN I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed.
TONY ARATA Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping is a waste of dreaming, and dre...
TONY ARATA Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to e...
TONY SCHWARTZ The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also le...
TONY GOLDWYN The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those...
TONY JUDT I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more ti...
TONY BENN In ramp skating, there's this guy Alex Perelson who's really coming into his own and doing s...
TONY HAWK What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus...
TONY CAMPOLO I plan to work my utmost for Singaporeans, whatever be their political affiliation. The presidency i...
TONY TAN People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christia...
TONY DUNGY I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's...
TONY HAWK During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are...
TONY MCCOY When I was around eleven or twelve, my board got hung up on the top of a bowl, and I got a concussio...
TONY HAWK From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based so...
TONY CAMPOLO Winning is an amazing feeling. You don't get that in business; you don't get that in many th...
TONY FERNANDES I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone e...
TONY ABBOTT Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty...
TONY SNOW But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material we...
TONY JUDT Airlines are one of the last things to be liberalized.
TONY FERNANDES I think airlines have been very much parrots. They'll just follow what everyone else is doing. W...
TONY FERNANDES When I started my airline business, I didn't know everything, right? If I start up a newspaper t...
TONY FERNANDES I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are...
TONY ABBOTT We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
TONY ROBBINS I'm a Prada freak and I think they have great eyewear. Even though I don't need glasses, I u...
TONY VINCENT I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from ...
TONY DUNGY The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
TONY ROBBINS The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your ...
TONY DUNGY I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do a...
TONY DANZA The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During th...
TONY BENNETT To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the wor...
TONY ROBBINS The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
TONY ROBBINS Sooner or later, we sell out for money.
TONY RANDALL Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's dee...
TONY ROBBINS The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
TONY ROBBINS What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple...
TONY CAMPOLO We've got guys who aren't wrapping guys up... No matter how hard you hit them, you've st...
TONY DUNGY I go into it with the attitude that I'm not going to look at my leg, and as soon as they get the...
TONY STEWART Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
TONY ROBBINS We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
TONY ROBBINS If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
TONY ROBBINS I am a racer. I'm not a race car driver. I am a racer. I race. That's what I do. I don't...
TONY STEWART We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
TONY ROBBINS Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
TONY ROBBINS Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device a...
TONY BATES After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief wor...
TONY CAMPOLO It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.
TONY VISCONTI My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. Bu...
TONY BLAIR You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing...
TONY ROBBINS In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's...
TONY ROBBINS Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never conce...
TONY ROBBINS I'm a minor player in my own life story.
TONY WILSON The desire for self-improvement is vital. There is no point in pushing children; they need to be the...
TONY BUZAN For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the...
TONY ABBOTT I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, th...
TONY ORLANDO Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military po...
TONY SNOW The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets...
TONY BLAIR If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves ...
TONY SNOW If recycling is the future, then we must focus our efforts on mitigating negative impacts to our com...
TONY CARDENAS Honestly, the best skater that I've seen who raps is Tyler, The Creator. He really can skate... ...
TONY HAWK When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to g...
TONY HAWK You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games....
TONY HAWK I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other w...
TONY HAWK I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebel...
TONY HAWK If I can stand up when I'm 80, I'll be happy to cruise around on a skateboard. If I feel lik...
TONY HAWK Don't be afraid of girls. That is my big regret. Knowing what I know about girls, I should have ...
TONY HAWK I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named...
TONY HAWK My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses...
TONY HAWK I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowb...
TONY HAWK I wanted to promote skateboarding as much as possible through different media.
TONY HAWK The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, wor...
TONY HAWK I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by t...
TONY HAWK I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ...
TONY HAWK If you look at the success of snowboarding in the Winter Games and how that's brought a more you...
TONY HAWK Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution...
TONY HAWK I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started tra...
TONY HAWK I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.
TONY HAWK If you have a game with your name on it, you have to learn how to play.
TONY HAWK There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
TONY ROBBINS Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident bec...
TONY JAA Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to ea...
TONY ROBBINS A single human brain has about a hundred million nerve cells... and a computer program that throws l...
TONY HOARE I've said all along that God is in control.
TONY DUNGY My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto othe...
TONY OLLER The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English ...
TONY HILLERMAN Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.
TONY GILROY What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
TONY ROBBINS Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect ...
TONY CARDENAS Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
TONY ROBBINS To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspir...
TONY DORSETT I'm not cynical or bitter in any way. Life's too short; you get ripped off, but if you hold ...
TONY FERNANDES My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me i...
TONY IOMMI It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that ...
TONY BLAIR Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them remove...
TONY PARSONS The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have beco...
TONY CAMPOLO I do like the nonpartisan atmosphere here at City Hall where you can talk with the person who oppose...
TONY CARDENAS That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. Yo...
TONY CAMPOLO In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Mini...
TONY BLAIR My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, an...
TONY MCCOY I don't know if it's embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
TONY OLLER If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is ever...
TONY DUNGY Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are ro...
TONY PARSONS It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral speci...
TONY JUDT I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
TONY ABBOTT Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm mor...
TONY BLAIR I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital ...
TONY CAMPOLO I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER What drives me is winning championships.
TONY PARKER What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol...
TONY HALE I want to do a book called 'Shopping and Cooking for One with Tony Danza,' where I will show...
TONY DANZA When you hear a great two-track of a performance in Carnegie Hall, let's say, it sounds like you...
TONY BENNETT Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think th...
TONY PARSONS Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist.
TONY WILSON Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies...
TONY BUZAN Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.
TONY JUDT