Quotes
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quotes
Bill Bowerman (Steve Prefontaine's Eulogy)
Of course he wanted to win. Those who saw Pre compete or who competed against him were never in doubt how much he wanted to win. But how he won mattered to him more. Pre thought I was a hard case. But he finally got it through my head that the real purpose of running isn't to win a race. It's to test to the limits of the human heart. That he did... No one did it more often. No one did it better.
Warren Buffett
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
Gilbert Chesterton
Tolerance is a virtue of a man without convictions.
Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Bill Cosby
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.
Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Albert Einstein
Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe.
Maurice Greene (attributed to Roger Bannister shortly after running the first sub-4 mile)
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must move faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must move faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up, you better be moving.
Robert Heinlein
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
Adam Hyman
From each according to his need, to each according to his ability.
David Hyman
Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.
Bobby Knight
The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
Ayn Rand
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ronald Reagan
How can you tell a communist? Reads Marx and Lenin. How can you tell an anti-communist? Read and understood Marx and Lenin.
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