The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effe...
JOHN ADAIR At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on ...
JOHN ADAIR So far, we've had 7.36 inches (of rain) for the year. Normal is about 4.51, so we're well above it.
JOHN ADAIR The police aren't the most popular people right now,
JOHN ADAIR Nickelback offered me a full-membership position. That's a great thing.
DANIEL ADAIR I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
DANIEL ADAIR Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.
CHERRY ADAIR The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however v...
GILBERT ADAIR If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur...
RED ADAIR I'll be working with everybody so I'll get to know fairly well what different issues are coming up i...
ANDY ADAIR I grew up on a farm so I thought driving a fire truck would be like handling a grain truck. But the ...
ANDY ADAIR I don't think any of the firefighters keep this job just for the pay. They take pride in being firef...
ANDY ADAIR With 9/11, it brought more to the public's attention there could be a call that firefighters might n...
ANDY ADAIR Throughout my years, I've had the pleasure of assembling and training what I believe to be the b...
RED ADAIR In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our ow...
GILBERT ADAIR We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, howev...
GILBERT ADAIR You skin is so soft. Smells like…”

She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and...
CHERRY ADAIR What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.
DANIEL ADAIR We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'O...
DANIEL ADAIR We're a controversial band, so big that everyone wants to hate us. We get a lot of bad press. I don'...
DANIEL ADAIR We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good ti...
DANIEL ADAIR Chad brings the bulk of the ideas to the table, and we all polish and rework the ideas he comes up w...
DANIEL ADAIR We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.
DEBBIE ADAIR Prevention is a whole lot less costly than treatment ? and maybe more effective.
DEBBIE ADAIR That?s what we?re trying to build. Two more groups to go.
DEBBIE ADAIR Look at you. You made a hole-in-one.
DEBBIE ADAIR In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own...
GILBERT ADAIR I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place...
RED ADAIR The good Lord put oil and gas there for us to find and use, and we'd better do it.
RED ADAIR Markets have taken the view that the government is doing everything it can against terrorism and to ...
ROBERT ADAIR All of the assets in our portfolio are performing well and offer promise for the future and I contin...
ROBERT ADAIR He's not putting through a Mickey Mouse increase. He's putting through a substantial increase that p...
ROBERT ADAIR This provides an exciting new focus for our exploration programme, particularly as production in Egy...
ROBERT ADAIR The next few months should prove very interesting with the drilling programme about to start in Bulg...
ROBERT ADAIR I started it; I knew a landlord.
RITA ADAIR We know we need to take care of these people for a few months.
RITA ADAIR I had to make it happen, I had to do what I know best.
RITA ADAIR The system really blocked us big time, the government. It's been very difficult to knock down that d...
RITA ADAIR Things don't seem terribly different to me. In terms of client needs and resident needs, I don't see...
RITA ADAIR This is grass roots at its best. It's powerful stuff.
RITA ADAIR The job produced minimal disincentives and we were able to achieve the improved smoothness criteria ...
BILL ADAIR Rich really embodies the kind of results of the work that we do as an organization. Our job really i...
BILL ADAIR A person who is enjoying life, working, going about their business and then all of a sudden they hav...
BILL ADAIR It's such a magnificent piece of ground, and that's why we're working so hard on it.
JIM ADAIR We had a lot of the momentum, but we just came up against a very physical team and every time there ...
TREVOR ADAIR Everything was just working in our favor.
TREVOR ADAIR The one thing I wanted most in life was for my dad to see me coaching in the Final Four. He won't ge...
TREVOR ADAIR It just happened so fast. Just two months ago he was driving, living a normal life.
TREVOR ADAIR If that ball had gone in, I am convinced we would have won the game.
TREVOR ADAIR Do they believe? Yes. They believe that they can beat anybody.
TREVOR ADAIR It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you'r...
RED ADAIR I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I ...
RED ADAIR Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out ...
RED ADAIR I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a y...
RED ADAIR If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
RED ADAIR We know they have a nice point guard. We have to contain him. We have to make them take tough shots ...
BRANDON ADAIR I can't take any plays off. You have to have a heart and soul for the game. I take what the defense ...
BRANDON ADAIR We pressure full court. We don't let teams walk the ball up the court and catch their breath. We're ...
BRANDON ADAIR It will bring a change in your life.
TAMMIE ADAIR It's something that both installations have in common.
TAMMIE ADAIR The most challenging thing in doing this is the new base realignment and where a conference like thi...
TAMMIE ADAIR The big thing was just getting them to focus. We just want them to take with them a positive attitud...
TAMMIE ADAIR Having something to say is overrated.
ADAIR LARA Women who buy perfume and flowers for themselves because their men won't do it are called 'self bast...
ADAIR LARA I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about...
RED ADAIR It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when y...
RED ADAIR We get a lot of gratification watching these kids develop and achieve their goals.
DONNIE ADAIR And they're traveling very, very fast together and I think last night, we saw a few accidents.
DONNIE ADAIR Every night, we're losing a lot of sleep over the Olympics, watching it, yes.
DONNIE ADAIR You can’t just come out and say what you have to say. That’s what people do on airplanes, when a...
ADAIR LARA I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.
RED ADAIR With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.
RED ADAIR Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's product...
RED ADAIR Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind ...
RED ADAIR It's going to put a human face on the priesthood. It's going to show four guys who are pretty normal...
JOE ADAIR What I struggle with is the mandatory celibacy. But I've always had this unfolding desire to serve t...
JOE ADAIR I had visions of a seminarian in a hot tub with a bunch of women.
JOE ADAIR Nicole grew up in extreme circumstances, but she couldn't get past the legal test for a downward dep...
GARY W. ADAIR It was left to Nicole to raise her sister and her niece, and she didn't know how to do all of those ...
GARY W. ADAIR Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico...
GARY W. ADAIR Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life tr...
WILLIAM PENN ADAIR ROGERS My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON