win quotes

“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”

— John Rockefeller

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

— Francis Bacon

“A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”

“Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.”

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

— Albert Einstein

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

— Martin Luther King

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.”

“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.”

“God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.”

“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”

“Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.”

— Salvador Dali

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

— Salvador Dali

“In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.”

— Salvador Dali

“It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.”

— Woody Allen

“The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.”

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.”

— Mother Teresa

“By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some, for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Wisdom comes with winters.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho

“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

— Ray Bradbury

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

— Ray Bradbury

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