Develop a Winning Mentality: Quotes to Fuel Your Drive - page 37
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose.
William M. Bulger
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
Danny Huston
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
Truman Capote
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All abilities come from one mind
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
Phyllis Diller
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
Two contrasting attitudes: non-math person: "Math is so abstract." i.e. "hard to understand" math person: We abstract *in order to understand.* Part of our job is to teach people this latter mentality.
James Key
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
The actions of the police division today will be to assist the church for the funeral. We anticipate that a fairly large crowd will be outside the church and the general area, ... We're trying to approach everything with common sense.
Thomas Streicher
Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Lawrence Dale Bell
Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
Charles Horton Cooley
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
