In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.
BOB BEAMONComplaining is not a strategy.You have to work with the world as you find it, not as you would have it be.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.
STEPHEN HAWKING -
Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
MARIE CURIE -
I’m more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect.
CLINT EASTWOOD -
What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.
THOMAS PYNCHON -
I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.
BENJAMIN CARSON -
Reality breaks hearts, but life is beautiful.
ANAND THAKUR -
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
I didn’t mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives… everybody.
BARRY WHITE -
All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting.
ROBIN SHARMA -
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
BERNARD BARUCH -
He won me over entirely by giving Himself entirely to me.
BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -
I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH -
What a pathetic play from a pathetic human being.
BILL WALTON -
I think it’s time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we’re going to write the vows because they’re going to mean a lot more.
BILL RANCIC -
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
BERYL BAINBRIDGE