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average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. Alan Guth
average fading saws
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
average excellence refuse
Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer
average lasts halls
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' Chip Kelly
average people sides
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. David Cross
average sound band
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. Buddy Rich
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh
batting patience
We want to see some more patience in the batting line-up, Shivnarine Chanderpaul
batting order ready time
We are progressing well. By the time of the World Cup, we will be ready in all departments -- bowling, batting order etc. Virender Sehwag
batting bill bowl field fits gives hopes include looking open players
We are looking to include players who can bat, bowl and field and Hopes fits that bill perfectly. He gives us another all-round option, and can open the batting if required. Trevor Hohns
batting below concern games looking par win
We were below par here but there are still two big games to go. Our batting is a concern but we go to Johannesburg looking to win the series. Michael Vaughan
batting brings goes guy including learn opportunity plenty stage taking talent terms younger
What he brings to the stage in terms of bowling, batting and fielding is exciting. He's a young guy, got plenty of talent and we're taking the opportunity of including a younger guy to learn as times goes on. David Graveney
batting hits three
Three years with 200 hits and a batting title, and he's not satisfied. Jon Daniels
batting fire means percent tried
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble. Larry Brilliant
batting people pitchers pitching plenty win
Let's let the pitchers concentrate on pitching for a while and then we'll get them their at-bats. Pitchers are getting plenty of batting practice, but we can't win if they don't get people out. Joe Girardi
batting coach coaches picks
She's more of a batting coach than most of the coaches are. She picks out every little thing. She's just so intelligent. Paul Marick
cameras feels audience
I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience. Alan Rickman
came help support thank united
We want to thank everyone who came out to support United Way agencies. The $11,500 will go a long way to help those in need. Leslie Robinson
came matches missing process
We want to see how the process came to be. He really matches up a lot of the missing pieces. Rep. Caruso
cameras alive fronts
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive Chow Yun-Fat
cameras giants knows
I know what to do with the camera because I see the giant in the camera when I'm operating it live on the set. Bryan Singer
came goal national reason senior spend teammates walked win year
The only reason he came back (for his senior year) is because he wanted to spend another year with his teammates and win a national championship. That was the No. 1 goal in his mind. When I walked out on the floor, that was the first thing he said. Bob Huggins
came game great hard kid love people playing practice tone whether
The one thing you have to do is always play the game hard and people will love you. And every day, whether it was practice or on the field, he set the tone for the organization. When every young kid came up, they could see him playing hard and I think it was really an inspiration for that organization. He got them two championships. He was a great leader. Mickey Hatcher
came followed market markets mexican rating stock upgrade
The possibility of an upgrade in Mexico's rating came out, the Mexican stock market went up and the other markets followed suit. Carlos Levorin
came flying front sitting sound
The person that was sitting in front of me came flying over the desk, ... and it was then that the sound registered. Jim Owens
defensive jack
We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy. Bill Cowher
defensive driven hard matches
We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season. Dennis Richardson
defensive figure good played team time together trying
We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there. Jim Elliott
defensive game games hockey kept lose stick system team
We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal. Sal Follo
defensive great nice struggled third
We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play. Terri Holmes
defensive deny paid pride strive taken team year
We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off. Jason Mathenia
defensive good rhythm taking
We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end. Jared Jeffries
defensive glass maintain second sustain tired wore
We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half. Josh Smith
defensive duplicate effort good nice played rest second
We spotted them a good 10 (points) in the first quarter. We played a real nice second quarter, defensively. Unfortunately, we didn't duplicate that defensive effort the rest of the ballgame. Kris Kalivas
errors mad void
Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.) Charles Stross
errors events chance
You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied. Charles Spurgeon
errors needs done
If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence. Charles Spurgeon
errors programming reborn
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn. Alan Perlis
errors mental-illness illness
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. David Mitchell
errors giving support
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou. Dave Barry
errors perception optical-illusions
Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone. Carl Sagan
errors safe reacting
Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error. Bill Johnson
errors useless repentance
Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. Edward Gibbon
pitchers variety
She has a variety of pitchers that make her successful. Dan Hogan
pitchers strike
Most pitchers have one pitch to strike out batters. Derek has three. Jeff Messer
pitchers ran shut year
We ran into two pitchers that year who shut us down. Augie Garrido
pitchers state top
Right now I think we have two of the top pitchers in the state on our team. Kelly Ryan
pitchers playing
Only our pitchers have been playing well. We've been scratching and clawing for runs. We'll find a way to get it done any way we can, but we've been inconsistently offensively. Darin Erstad
pitchers starting struggle unusual
I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit. Chuck Hernandez
pitchers
I don't know. That's for the pitchers to decide, not me. Rich Aurilia
pitchers starting
Baseball's postseason shifts from game to game because of starting pitchers and the geography of the ballparks. George Vecsey
pitchers quality
He has had some quality at-bats, and pitchers have pitched him really tough. Brian Sabean
strong jobs men
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers. Charles Caleb Colton
strong mind haste
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. Charles Caleb Colton
strong party reason
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong. Charles Caleb Colton
strong hands monsters
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive. Charles Caleb Colton
strong advice desire
When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own. Charles Caleb Colton
strong passion may
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed. Charles Caleb Colton
strong men thinking
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery. Charles Caleb Colton
strong circles errors
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil. Charles Caleb Colton
strong two mind
No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one. Charles Caleb Colton
team people dementors
I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here Alan Pardew
team cups world
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup. Alan Hansen
team cups needs
The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team. Alan Hansen
teamwork littles best-team
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. Alain Prost
team people helping
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better. Alain Prost
team frogs tadpoles
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog. Alain Prost
team compromise building
You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise. Alain Prost
team numbers
There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe. Al Michaels
team taken miami-dolphins
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling. Al Michaels