Amount Quotes
A huge amount still needs to be done. At the moment hundreds of children are still malnourished.
I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.
Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small.
I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
There's only X amount of time. You can do whatever you want with that time. It's your time.
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging
Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amount of hard work that is put into it.
No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.
If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food.
In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.
Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what a lovely sport gymnastics is.
I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 - my brothers and I are always the first ones in.
The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.
The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.
The gas-law of learning: . . . any amount of information no matter how small will fill any intellectual void no matter how large.
What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.
It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.
Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
I know that statistically, it has been proven that there is a tremendous amount of black on black crime within the inner cities.
Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers.
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.
I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me.
The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.
Don't forget, I'm a dragon, I can fly, in the shortest amount of time, I'll bring all my members with me and we'll come to your side.