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ambition mind firsts
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. Charles Caleb Colton
ambition errors suffering
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.
ambition son men
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
ambition perception prudent
It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. Alan Hansen
ambition want plus
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want. Aiden Wilson Tozer
ambition goal quality
There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal. Chogyam Trungpa
ambition successful men
You can have ambition But not too much You should aim to be successful But not too successful Otherwise you will threaten the man Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ambition journey discovery
I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery. David Morrissey
ambition simple thinking
I have very simple ambitions. If I can just not be boring, I'm ahead of the game. It's hard in television. I think you get enormous reward from the audience. Just give them something they didn't see coming, and you get enormous points. David Nevins
finishes guy
If Andrew's the guy that finishes it, Andrew's the guy that finishes it. John Shepard
finishes teams three time top
It could be the first time that only one of the teams finishes in the top 10 in a long time. There's always been two of them and most of the time all three (in the top 10).
finishes generation seem wrinkle
For me, there's a new generation of linens with finishes that don't wrinkle as much, that seem much more organic, much more natural. Joseph Abboud
finishes reason won works
I think it works perfectly. He finishes off the games. He's the big reason we won today. Ike Diogu
finishes good hopeful kids shown title worry
We have a good shot. Getting a title is a hopeful goal. Top-10 finishes shouldn't be a worry. A big thing is getting two or three, and the kids have shown they can do it.
finishes whoever
Whoever finishes first will be called the Ironman. John Collins
finishes minute next people send sick starts trek
Right off the bat, we send all the castaways on an 11-mile trek through the jungle. It starts one minute into show and finishes the next day. People are getting sick and everything. You'll see. Jeff Probst
finishes man outfits wear
You Write Better Than You Play. He's a man who finishes his outfits -- and who can wear purple. Mary Carillo
finishes past race runs season summer training
This past season we did some more slalom training in the summer and during the season. He always finishes his runs in training. But when it comes to race day it just doesn't happen.
knows self-examination
He who knows himself knows others.
knows written
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it. Charles Dickens
knows
I'm so private and I don't know why! China Chow
knows
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. David Mitchell
knows limitation
You will never know your limitations until you find them. David Murphy
knows i-can
Ultimately, I am all I can know. Byron Katie
knows
Know your own happiness. Jane Austen
knows rely roads talk time
When you talk to the crews, everybody's tired, but at the same time everyone knows they rely on us to keep the roads open. I think we're doing our best. We're just going to keep trying.
knows
I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V. Bill Joy
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
methods
The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone. Dick Morris
methods produce tried
We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all. Cheryl Tiegs
methods preaching regard shall vastly
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached. John Gresham Machen
methods proved work
What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work. Bela Karolyi
methods squeeze various
Through various different methods they've managed to squeeze residential construction.
methods payment people
In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances, Robert Sterling
prize values
I don't value prizes of any sort. David Hockney
prize
Those who act receive the prizes. Aristotle
prize second stronger yield
To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize Marcus Aurelius
prize work worse
On a transcendental level, a film is not going to be better or worse because there's a prize behind it. The work will be what it is, with or without a prize. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
prize-money perspective tennis
My feelings are Yevgeny Kafelnikov should take his prize money when he is done here and go and buy some perspective. Andre Agassi
prized refuge talking toxic turned wildlife
We're talking about a prized wildlife refuge that's been effectively turned into a toxic dump.
prizes winning
Winning prizes is always a pleasure, and especially these because they come from your colleagues. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
prizes thousands
We'll have thousands of prizes to give away.
prize top
The $500,000 is the top prize in that game.
sentence
My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.' Nigel Barker
sentimental vain cases
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
sentence
I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk. Jason Calacanis
sentimentality
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. Jane Jacobs
sentiment
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. Jose Rizal
sentiments reasoning
All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment. Blaise Pascal
sent
She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal. Mark Johnson
sentence time word
Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time. Bill Cosby
sentence wrote
When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going. Colleen Hoover
starts
When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer. Joan Van Ark
starts work
She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.
starts
We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game. Jack Smith
starts
If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread. Mo Ibrahim
starts tournament win
We did not win a lot of games. But the tournament really starts with the quarter-finals. Milan Hejduk
starts
What I think you probably couldn't put on TV, but it starts with a 'B' and starts with an 'S'.
starts
It all starts with him. He can do it all.
starts
There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. Lauren Bacall
starts
He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench. Sven Eriksson
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work-out effort feels
If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do. Dave Chappelle
work-out levels mail
I always take a relationship to the next level. If that works out, I take it to the next level after that, until I finally reach that level when it becomes absolutely necessary for me to leave.