All Quotes

"It is important for us to find a form of exercise we enjoy so that we keep doing it."

"The advent of the internet, internet shopping and mobile phones all mean that we can run our lives without moving around as much as we used to. I really don’t know where it will end unless people take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing."

"I did more classes around the county and it just grew"

"It went from talking about how to make the most of yourself to actually doing some exercise"

"The wonderful thing is that most of my class have been coming to me for at least 30 years, if not 40 years."

"When the credit crunch came, it seemed like a perfect storm."

"Human nature puts people on a pedestal and we like having someone to look up to."

"One of the hardest things when our company went into administration was that someone else could use my name."

"[You need to] keep bringing in new people, you just have to keep refreshing the point of view. If you don't do that, then it's just like it's just a museum piece."

"The show [This Hour has 22 Minutes] is not just about Newfoundland, but it is the spirit it was created from."

"Don’t envy anyone, because if some were to share their real experiences, you would be shocked."

"Anyone with the privileged gift of life has a fair chance to turn the page on failure."

"Whatever I don’t have today or cannot afford would never cost me a blink irrespective of how many people have those things around me. All I can say is that we are still on the journey and hopefully, we will arrive."

"Goalkeeping takes a lot and apart from the regular training that you get from the trainers, you also need to have some inbuilt qualities. You should be able to make quick decisions and have very good reflexes."

"Prayers have been keeping me strong. Anytime I feel ‘down’, I talk to God and I beg Him to give me strength because I have to stay alive and strong for my mother and sisters."

"Many legends in the industry can’t compete with the budding artistes now but saying they are up-and-coming is not a way to show appreciation for the works they had done in the past."

"Hungarian minstrels boarded the train at , played vigorously for more than two hours and finished with the ', with the chef singing a vociferous solo. The passengers were received by at his new . managed to arrange an exclusive interview with him, which he glowingly recounted in '. After the euphoria of the inaugural trip the settled into a regular routine."

"A next big step forward was the building of the Shirley Sherwood Gallery by my family. It opened in the in 2008, and stands next to the Marianne North Gallery. Since then there have been over 50 exhibitions, always with some contributions from my collection and Kew's archives. I had been commissioning and acquiring paintings since 1990 and by 2018 had more than than a thousand works from artists working all over the world. Another milestone was that by 2018 we counted over one million visitors to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery. It has become the central focus of botanical art in the world today and the footfall has increased dramatically."

"The spectacular works in this book, all exemplars from Dr Shirley Sherwood's incomparable collection of contemporary botanical art, highlight an artistic practice that infuses accuracy with artistry, and deep love of plants, to create new works that rank with the greatest of the eighteenth and nineteenth century."

"I wrote the book because black women in America have been protected and insulated against certain kinds of criticism and examination."

"Trying to force a percentage of woman on boards – I'm completely against all that."

"People talk about glass ceilings but it is not something I have particularly experienced – but that is only my experience."

"There should be more freedom of choice. People should be free to decide whether to go to a smoking establishment or a non-smoking environment."

"I am not someone who supports quotas because quotas are around the demand side of the equation and you need to look at the supply side. And quick fixes on the supply side are not necessarily quality fixes."

"I don’t like to think we’re a commodity.” Speaking in a television interview with Bloomberg TV, she added: “It’s not a quick thing to sort."

"It is just a fantastic relaxation and it’s good for the core and voice projection"

"I’m hoping it is, but it’s too early to call. It’s the only sign I’ve got at the moment"

"The down-trading dynamic has been in place in Western Europe for a very, very long time"

"Display bans don’t make a difference; bigger warnings on packs don’t make a difference"

"The only thing we have ever seen make a difference is bans on smoking in public places, because they reduce the occasions to smoke."

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now"

"Fixing demand isn’t the answer, and that is all quotas do. It does nothing for fixing supply and also, if I’m being straightforward, it does nothing about the quality of supply. It is going to take a while and hard yards to fix some of this"

"“I do carry quite a lot of data in my head, but a lot of it is song lyrics.”"

""There are plenty of adults who still choose to smoke despite decades of reasons not to. That needs to be respected at some point.”"

"All I have ever done with my career is just try and maximise the opportunity and challenge for whatever role I have been in, and that has led to me to this seat.”"

"‘Haraka, haraka haina Baraka’ which means in Swahili ‘Hurry, hurry brings no blessing’."

""If you work for me it doesn’t mean I don’t drive quite hard for things, but there are times in business when you just have to sit back and let things take their course — maybe let the decision brew a bit before you jump in.”"

"Basic to a free society is the belief in a golden rule. Just as you feel you have the right to your opinion, you must feel that everyone else, in turn has a right to his."

"If any one thread runs through the UVM story, it is the continual belief that higher education should be pre-occupied with the progress of mankind."

"Education is, however, an extremely interesting and complex institution provided because society has discovered that, if it is to preserve itself and advance, it must spare the time and the people necessary to provide our young people with an understanding of their heritage. But education doesn't take place within institutions. It takes place only within individuals. It is something we cannot buy. It is something that records in the registrar's office do not measure."

"We can all join that most worthwhile of all wars—the fight for tolerance, the fight for wisdom, the fight for freedom. Above all else, continue to develop your tastes—material and spiritual—so that you may learn to choose the best values from life's many alternatives."

"Zhongxun is frequently celebrated for his conciliatory tactics and efforts to engage local power brokers instead of forcing them. Still, his dedication to the Party’s goals was steadfast. He adhered to Mao’s execution quotas in Xi’an and was quiet during the Tiananmen crisis, expecting Deng Xiaoping’s brutal reaction. He [had] consistently prioritized the Party’s interests whenever he felt they were threatened, and taught his family to do the same. …Even during his father’s persecution, Xi Jinping stayed loyal to the Party, interpreting Zhongxun’s suffering as a painful sacrifice, yet one needed for the sake of the CCP."

"Here is iPhone 10. Now, unlocking it is as easy as looking at it and swiping up."

"At Apple Pay, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right, we don't think you should have to make a tradeoff between great features and privacy. We believe you deserve both."

"We delivered this while taking an extraordinary step forward for privacy and AI with private cloud compute, which extends the privacy of your iPhone into the cloud so no one else can access your data, not even Apple. We also introduced enhancements that make Siri more natural and more helpful, and as we've shared, we're continuing our work to deliver the features that make Siri even more personal. This work needed more time to reach our high quality bar, and we look forward to sharing more about it in the coming year."

"It wouldn't meet our customer expectations or Apple standards."

"I get up at 7:30 am. I do 'morning pages' - three written pages of journaling (a concept from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron). Then ten minutes of meditation and a half-hour walk into the office."

"I'm too busy to check email or social media before work, which is great as I find that checking for updates does not set me up well for the day at all"

"I discovered Todoist through a 'lunch and learn' we did at Softwire where people explained their methods of tracking tasks. It's a fabulous app because it just works."

"I have a fledgling career as an actor and trying to fit both in means I work pretty much all the time, including evenings and weekends. I try not to send emails into the night"