Dave Winfield Quotes

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

Dave Winfield

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• As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Person
  • Unique
  • Teen

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Men
  • Power

• Where there is Torah it sustains the world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Where
  • Torah

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Really

• To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Different
  • Science
  • Technology

• The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Escape
  • Most
  • Searching

• Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Peace
  • Israel
  • Hatred

• I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Agree

• I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Always
  • Sad
  • Paradise

• You can do as much as you think you can,But you'll never accomplish more;If you're afraid of yourself, young man,There's little for you in store.For failure comes from the inside first,It's there if we only knew it,And you can win, though you face the worst,If you feel that you're going to do it.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Failure

• It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,And times and things, as in that vision, seemKeeping along it their eternal stands.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Dream
  • Vision

• I just can’t believe anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can’t believe it.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Believe
  • Band
  • Cool

• I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May

• Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Broken
  • Bridge
  • Owl

• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  

  Al Stewart

• All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

  

  Bjarke Ingels
  • People
  • Good
  • Energy

• Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own. Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I see the most change in my body through exercise. They say diet determines your weight, and exercise determines your shape - I find that to be a pretty true statement. When I'm doing a lot of boxing, my hamstrings are really strong and my biceps. When I'm doing a lot of Pilates, I find that my core is really lean and my inner thighs.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

  

  Kirsten Dunst
  • Happy

• The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

  

  Dave Winfield