Amount Quotes

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. (B. F. Skinner)
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. View quote
Henry Adams
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment. View quote
Robert Benchley
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. View quote
Stephen Vizinczey
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. View quote
Jerry Seinfeld
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. View quote
Helen Keller
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. (Antonio Porchia)
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. View quote
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion. View quote
Etty Hillesum
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. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. View quote
George Sutherland
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. View quote
Colin Powell
Income No. 3 must be defined as the maximum amount of money which the individual can spend this week, and still be able to spend the same amount in real terms in each ensuing week. View quote
John Hicks
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. (George S. Patton)
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. View quote
Edward Hopper
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. View quote
Wallace Stegner
Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window. View quote
Michael Palin