Archive for November, 2007
When you want
When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
- Tom Landry
Famous Quotes Topics: game, learn, losing, teach, win, winner, winning
I am still
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Famous Quotes Topics: cheerful, experience, happiness, happy, learn, misery, situation
Merely having an
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- G.K. Chesterton
Famous Quotes Topics: mind, mouth, open, solid
There is nothing
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Famous Quotes Topics: place, yourself
A winner’s strongest
A winner’s strongest muscle is her heart.
- Cassie Campbell
Famous Quotes Topics: heart, strong, win, winner
Many would be
Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise.
- Baltasar Gracian
Famous Quotes Topics: think, wise
Columbus didn’t have
Columbus didn’t have a business plan when he discovered America.
- Andrew Grove
Famous Quotes Topics: america, business, columbus, plan
The real leader
The real leader has no need to lead — he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller
Famous Quotes Topics: leader, real
If there is
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.
- Richard Hofstadter
Famous Quotes Topics: commitment, dangerous, ideas, independent, life, mind, special
Excess on occasion
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of habit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Famous Quotes Topics: acquiring, habit, moderation, occasion
