Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.


Scott Adams

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The person blaming others for his lack of success is like the CEO, of a company blaming his messenge...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but ...
HERMAN KAHN
Henry Adams and the Making of America,
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Henry Adams and the Making of America
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
Blaming the failures of public education on gender simply reinforces outdated notions of sex roles, ...
CAROL TRACY
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to sh...
JOAN KIRNER
Knowledge is life. The more informed you are, the better you are in making the best decision.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
A false leader takes credit for successes while blaming others for failures.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerge...
DOUGLAS HODGE
We hope the delay will be a positive step, but at the same time we are very much hoping and insistin...
JUSTIN HAYES
Scott is definitely out and Nate will be a game-time decision.
JASON FITZSIMMONS
How everything comes??
I really don't know I can say that it comes from nowhere :D :d.
DEYTH BANGER
Stop blaming others and start living your life.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN
Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions ...
CANDACE PERT
It was informed by the Cajun tradition, waltzes and ballads and two steps.
ROGER WOOD
He said (the coaches understood) he needs to make an informed decision. So they didn't pressure him ...
DEANDRE SCOTT
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.
TOM CHAPIN
The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead peo...
JAYDE SCOTT
My life changed the moment I stopped blaming others for my failures.
DHAVAL GAJERA
Dawn is the only female on the board. She and her family have been part of Lansing for a long, long ...
GRACE BAZYLEWSKI
He has not informed the Giants of that decision.
NED COLLETTI
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
JONATHAN IVE
Whenever it comes to decision making, Remember the part about having confidence.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
She was reading Francis Godwin's Man in the Moone--its man was borne into space in a carriage...
DANIELLE DUTTON
This kind of significant increase means that people are making a conscious decision to save the live...
FRANK MARKEL
Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution.
ROY T. BENNETT
It's been confirmed. We were informed of the results this morning.
ILHAM PATU
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite de...
SIMON BEAUFOY
Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was...
STACY SCHIFF
[North Korea,] not for the first time, has chosen to isolate itself, ... has a rather sad and long h...
CHRISTOPHER HILL
playing to fear, pitting neighbor against neighbor and blaming others for their own failures to prov...
JEB BUSH
If you stuck me in a room and gave me art-making tools but told me no one would ever see the results...
AMANDA PALMER
It's a tradition to bring devil water. It comes from our pool in Westfield and they bring it and poo...
JAIME RUSZALA
Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of vio...
PAULO FREIRE
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Some fail because after they choose the direction for their careers, they spend too much time second...
KIM HA CAMPBELL
The results from the current mission will be essential for developing a better understanding of the ...
DANIEL SCHEERES
Both Jim and I are interested in the limits of conventional decision-making. The idea that an expert...
MALCOLM GLADWELL
All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I w...
TAYE DIGGS
There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
STEVE EARLE
It's a serious endeavor for us. We've become a tradition for many families and we're making a differ...
GWENDINE NORTON
Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.
RICHIE NORTON
'Hoax!' The common response for something weird. Then comes curiosity for the people who want to be ...
TOBA BETA
Speedier decision making, earlier awareness of potential problems and improved efficiency helps chan...
TIM ARNOLD
So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no m...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI
I know I’m a long way from being untwisted.” Val drew her close and kissed her forehead. “I ki...
ELAINE LEVINE
I'm not trying to be difficult, ... but I want to be informed before I make a decision. Until then, ...
PATRICIA SANDERS
You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else...
JOHN BURROUGHS
He's been close to decision-making for a long time and observed several prime ministers. He's had al...
EYAL ARAD
Obviously, we're pleased. I think the council made a very informed decision based on reams and reams...
CHUCK MADISON
Then again, White House has been very decisive in their decision-making,
LOU DAVIS
All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER
To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin L...
JOHN CORNYN
We've seen a marked increase in the number of women calling to request an in-home estimate. In fact,...
BOB MACEDA
Decision plus action = results.
JOHN DI LEMME
Our argument is all about getting an honest lay of the land so the decision makers can make the most...
JEFF MIKULINA
Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD
Doing nothing is also an action; not making a decision is making a decision.
BOHDI SANDERS
Airlines are constantly making work more stressful for the flight attendant with increased duty time...
COREY CALDWELL
There's a long tradition of rivalry between our two programs, and I know they'll be ready for us.
GREG MARSDEN
true beauty comes from inside a person. If you feel beautiful, then you’ll look beautiful to other...
KELLY ORAM
India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.
AMISH TRIPATHI
Making a decision is the right decision.
MILTON DREPAUL
I feel they picked the wrong guy. We've already informed the USOC of the wrong decision. I'm confide...
CHRIS KLUG
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
PAUL RYAN
Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced wit...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR
Most environmental decisions are based on science and we should not substitute a political decision-...
ERIC DRAPER
This obviously shows a fair amount of disarray. They really went from bad to worse, from taking an o...
JOEL BERG
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to hel...
MORAJI R. DESAI
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to h...
MORARJI DESAI
Out there I'm spending money, and here I'm making money, ... So it wasn't that hard of a decision. I...
CLINTON PORTIS
A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for t...
SANJO JENDAYI
This continues the venerable Darwinian tradition of making grandiose claims based on piddling result...
MICHAEL BEHE
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
GERALD G. JAMPOLSKY
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
GERALD G JAMPOLSKY
Scott challenged us all day long and they outplayed us.
DAN CALLAHAN
Blaming the World Bank for poverty is a bit like blaming the Red Cross for starting World Wars I and...
MICHAEL MOORE
We have received a suspicious package and we have informed the police. We have evacuated the embassy...
FAYE BELNIS
The nourishment of our souls comes from the smiles of others.
STEVE MARABOLI
You are sitting on a gold mine and not doing anything. Then there is no point in blaming us for taki...
BHARAT AGGARWAL
Many of every day blessings comes from your determination to do great.
NELSON RIOS
It reduces the prospects for recovering species, it weakens the scientific foundations for decision-...
JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK
We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
The colour or intensity of a smoke doesn’t determine the type of fire that forms the smoke.
AGBOR JENET
Therefore, I informed him that the party should proceed according to the decision.
CHUAN LEEKPAI
It's not about making the right choice.
It's about making a choice and making it right.
J.R. RIM
It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.
J.R. RIM
We do not have the luxury of blaming others for our own problems. It is high time we addressed our n...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU
I was very pleased to receive a letter by fax today from Troy King, the Attorney General of the Stat...
CHUCK CANTERBURY
The counting process will be quite long, and [will] then [be followed by] the preliminary [confirmat...
EMMA BONINO
We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
FEDERICA MOGHERINI
If this opens up so we have more and more officers speaking up and blaming Rumsfeld and blaming seni...
ANDREW BACEVICH
Know yourself well first, then you can know others. With this knowledge comes the vision for persona...
CYNTHIA TAM
You can't guard Nicole Scott with just one player. Langley (Iverson) did a great job on her but we a...
KAREN FRIEL
Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to ...
J. B. PRITZKER
True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yoursel...
SHANNON L. ALDER
Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else
MAE WEST

More Scott Adams

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
SCOTT ADAMS
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influe...
SCOTT ADAMS
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
SCOTT ADAMS
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your ...
SCOTT ADAMS
You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don...
SCOTT ADAMS
I get mail; therefore I am.
SCOTT ADAMS
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS
The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with...
SCOTT ADAMS
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
SCOTT ADAMS
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS
I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a ...
SCOTT ADAMS
Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones....
SCOTT ADAMS
And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing
SCOTT ADAMS
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logi...
SCOTT ADAMS
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logic...
SCOTT ADAMS
You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eatin...
SCOTT ADAMS
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
SCOTT ADAMS
Technology: No Place for Wimps!
SCOTT ADAMS
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
SCOTT ADAMS
I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers...
SCOTT ADAMS
If you
SCOTT ADAMS
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about t...
SCOTT ADAMS
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company
SCOTT ADAMS
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your...
SCOTT ADAMS
What makes the universe so hard to comprehend is that there's nothing to compare it with.
SCOTT ADAMS
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can ...
SCOTT ADAMS
If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
SCOTT ADAMS
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer'...
SCOTT ADAMS
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
SCOTT ADAMS
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly goi...
SCOTT ADAMS
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no lo...
SCOTT ADAMS
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
SCOTT ADAMS
The best things in life are silly.
SCOTT ADAMS
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in ...
SCOTT ADAMS
I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I t...
SCOTT ADAMS
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The...
SCOTT ADAMS
Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.
SCOTT ADAMS
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frighten...
SCOTT ADAMS
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their...
SCOTT ADAMS
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high ex...
SCOTT ADAMS
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alik...
SCOTT ADAMS
The only risk of failure is promotion.
SCOTT ADAMS
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
SCOTT ADAMS
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
SCOTT ADAMS
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can...
SCOTT ADAMS
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major...
SCOTT ADAMS
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
SCOTT ADAMS
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, ...
SCOTT ADAMS
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logica...
SCOTT ADAMS
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...
SCOTT ADAMS
Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching.
SCOTT ADAMS
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give y...
SCOTT ADAMS
You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor.
SCOTT ADAMS
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be...
SCOTT ADAMS
Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.
SCOTT ADAMS
The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more livi...
SCOTT ADAMS
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Ta...
SCOTT ADAMS
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.
SCOTT ADAMS
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
SCOTT ADAMS
The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
SCOTT ADAMS
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and lik...
SCOTT ADAMS
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
SCOTT ADAMS
Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, cha...
SCOTT ADAMS
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
SCOTT ADAMS
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smar...
SCOTT ADAMS
If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
SCOTT ADAMS
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge
SCOTT ADAMS
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
SCOTT ADAMS
The best things in life are silly
SCOTT ADAMS
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessi...
SCOTT ADAMS
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the 'Dilbert' comic. Once it became clear I...
SCOTT ADAMS
My brain doesn't register it as drawing. The feeling of friction across the glass is different.
SCOTT ADAMS
One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys
SCOTT ADAMS
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high ex...
SCOTT ADAMS
Idiocy in the modern age isn't an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It's...
SCOTT ADAMS
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
SCOTT ADAMS
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up an...
SCOTT ADAMS
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-...
SCOTT ADAMS
The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until...
SCOTT ADAMS
Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto
SCOTT ADAMS
I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sur...
SCOTT ADAMS
If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.
SCOTT ADAMS
I've heard stories of (salmon) being caught further offshore than they normally would (be) — on tu...
SCOTT ADAMS
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally ...
SCOTT ADAMS
You can change only what people know, not what they do.
SCOTT ADAMS
If you become a nuisance ... they're not going to like you.
SCOTT ADAMS
I've heard stories of (salmon) being caught further offshore than they normally would (be) â�...
SCOTT ADAMS
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead
SCOTT ADAMS
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno...
SCOTT ADAMS
Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't b...
SCOTT ADAMS
will take care of itself.
SCOTT ADAMS
Random Acts of Management.
SCOTT ADAMS
I don't think I ever really go more than 30 minutes before I've got two or three things in my mind a...
SCOTT ADAMS
Why aren't you signed up for the 401K? I'd never be able to run that far
SCOTT ADAMS
The longer you work here, diverse it gets
SCOTT ADAMS
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advanta...
SCOTT ADAMS
Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo.
SCOTT ADAMS
When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.
SCOTT ADAMS
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.
SCOTT ADAMS
When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it.
SCOTT ADAMS
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people...
SCOTT ADAMS
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, ...
SCOTT ADAMS
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up an...
SCOTT ADAMS
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination
SCOTT ADAMS
You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people i...
SCOTT ADAMS
A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For tha...
SCOTT ADAMS
It's just three minutes in the microwave, it's hand held, it works with a busy lifestyle,
SCOTT ADAMS
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Age...
SCOTT ADAMS
It has no real financial impact on me. And I'm not the angry-getting type. If they prorated my subsc...
SCOTT ADAMS
It is a fairly centralized downtown location, central to the proposed condos. It won't necessarily b...
SCOTT ADAMS
In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to...
SCOTT ADAMS
I've literally gotten out of my chair, lain on the floor and fallen sound asleep,
SCOTT ADAMS
I don't even bother walking to the couch, because there's nobody going to come in and see me. When I...
SCOTT ADAMS
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public
SCOTT ADAMS
If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating...
SCOTT ADAMS
Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions.
SCOTT ADAMS
Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there’s no object...
SCOTT ADAMS
If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is...
SCOTT ADAMS
One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there&...
SCOTT ADAMS
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not ...
SCOTT ADAMS
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don...
SCOTT ADAMS
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of font...
SCOTT ADAMS
No matter how smart you are, you spend most of your day being an idiot.
SCOTT ADAMS
I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.
SCOTT ADAMS
I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and ...
SCOTT ADAMS
There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so...
SCOTT ADAMS
In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out ...
SCOTT ADAMS
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she&#...
SCOTT ADAMS
The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuin...
SCOTT ADAMS
When it comes to skills, quantity often beats quality.
SCOTT ADAMS
How is sky the limit?...When it can't be touched
SCOTT
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about ...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
YOLANDA ADAMS
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly...
YOLANDA ADAMS
I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
YOLANDA ADAMS
All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of G...
YOLANDA ADAMS
The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I wou...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
YOLANDA ADAMS
Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do some...
YOLANDA ADAMS
I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a ...
YOLANDA ADAMS
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anythi...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University o...
YOLANDA ADAMS
You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something differ...
YOLANDA ADAMS
The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information a...
YOLANDA ADAMS
I'm very involved with kids because after being a teacher for seven years, I just can't stop...
YOLANDA ADAMS
God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks i...
YOLANDA ADAMS
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as ...
YOLANDA ADAMS
You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband o...
YOLANDA ADAMS
People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whateve...
YOLANDA ADAMS
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a soun...
YOLANDA ADAMS
Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a...
YOLANDA ADAMS
I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that yo...
YOLANDA ADAMS
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS
Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS
I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS
The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryo...
SANDY ADAMS
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
SAMUEL ADAMS
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes pr...
SAMUEL ADAMS
You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know wh...
PATCH ADAMS
I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really ...
BRYAN ADAMS
I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
BRYAN ADAMS
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, w...
BRYAN ADAMS
A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
BRYAN ADAMS