Ted Engstrom Quotes

#1. A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

#2. Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

Ted Engstrom

#3. Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream.

Jimmy Carter

#4. You can either take action, or you can hang back and hope for a miracle. Miracles are great, but they are so unpredictable.

Peter Drucker

#5. Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager, exalted tone that only American news reporters seem to achieve. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.

Maj Sjowall

#6. She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.

Rachel Vincent

#7. The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Ted Engstrom

#8. When you consider the magnitude of how many people use Wikipedia globally, there is a potential here for really creating some noise and getting some attention in the U.S.

Jimmy Wales

#9. We must expect to fail ... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Ted Engstrom

#10. Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Ted Engstrom

#11. Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

Derek Ridgers

#12. Tone can be as important as text.

Ed Koch

#13. What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

Ted Engstrom

#14. If you're God's instrument, Owen," I said, "how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?

John Irving