Charles W. Scharf Quotes
Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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One of the most interesting things about this job is encountering the perceptions people have of me. I'm the person I've always been.
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Many of us rely on our own illusion of control. But when God makes it known to you that you're not the one steering the ship, be thankful. He has removed the illusion, and forced you to rely only on Him.
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I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.
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Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.
