Giving Quotes

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
Mario Batali

Time, Someone, Else

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.
Robert Mondavi

Beautiful, Heart, Goodness

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Harold S. Geneen

Important, Same, Themselves

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising.
Lucy Powell

Work, Good, Money

Well, I haven't signed anything giving people the right to do anything they want with my image, you know what I mean. I have the ultimate say.
Joaquin Phoenix

Mean, Image, Ultimate

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Elia Kazan

Hate, Career, Give

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
Ugo Betti

Person, Mad, Fact

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Zoltan Kodaly

Him, Training, Child

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
Isabel Allende

Education, Work, Family

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.
Sofia Vergara

Family, Bad, Happen

I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
Steve Nash

Life, Person, Others

The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.
Alison Sweeney

Love, Food, Thinking

There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
Damian Lewis

Life, May, Through

The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
Gary Numan

Music, Good, Through

My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Business, Mom, Dad

You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Family, Respect, Patience

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
J. J. Abrams

Love, Technology, Idea

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
Allen West

Freedom, Understand, Storm

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
Tom Peters

Understand, Advice, Audience

Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.
Keith Henson

Good, Best, Yourself

Whenever I'm asked who my favourite co-star is, I always hesitate in giving an answer.
Roger Moore

Answer, Asked, Whenever

Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
Danica Patrick

Happy, Single, Trying

One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Danica Patrick

Confidence, Less, Speech

I love getting attention, just like a child loves it, and it's never worn off. So when people say, oh the book signings go on, why would I shoo away someone who's giving me attention? What part of standing in line for 10 hours to say how much they love you is bad to you?
David Sedaris

Love, Bad, Someone

America is a giving nation and very compassionate.
David Wilkerson

America, Nation

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.
Elizabeth Berkley

Compassion, Share, Standing

My work is about giving voice to the unheard, and reiterating the voice of the heard in such a way that you question, or re-examine, what is the truth.
Anna Deavere Smith

Work, Truth, Question

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.
Raul Julia

Life, Experience, Yourself

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.
Ellen Barkin

Away, Acting, Matter

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas, giving you tons of things to work with, making you question your character and making you think about it... and making it seem like everything is limitless. That usually helps a lot.
Emma Roberts

Work, Great, Character

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