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Quotable quotes for whatever purpose...
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
— Dorothy Nevill, writer
Sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a really bad sense of timing.
— George McGovern, 1972 Democratic presidential nominee
When Ty Cobb, one of baseball's greatest hitters, was 70, a reporter asked him, "What do you think you'd hit if you were playing today?" Cobb, a lifetime .367 hitter, said, "About .290, maybe .300." The reporter said, "That's because of the travel, the night games, the artificial turf, and all the new types of pitches, right?" Replied Cobb, "No, it's because I'm 70."
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: The next mile is the only one a person really has to make.
— Eric Sevareid, journalist
The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
— Theodore Hesburgh, former president, Notre Dame University
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
— Johann von Goethe, poet, novelist, playwright
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
— Anonymous
You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden, basketball coach and educator
If you're looking for friends when you need them, it's too late.
— Mark Twain, author
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
— Winston Churchill, statesman, author
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
— George Carlin, comedian
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
— Tom Clancy, author
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
— Jim Scheibel, former mayor, St. Paul, MN
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
— Robert Schuller, minister, author
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
— Bill Parcels, former New England Patriots head coach, on the progress made by 2nd-year quarterback Drew Bledsoe
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