Martina Navratilova Quotes

Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.

Martina Navratilova

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• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Yourself

• I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Aunt

• I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the Detroit of the gangster world. The car industry was thugs.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Car
  • Chicago

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • American
  • Girl
  • City

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Present
  • Poverty

• I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Friends
  • Same
  • Kindergarten

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Want
  • Fear

• Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.

  

  Beck
  • Mind
  • Why
  • City

• One of my favorites of all time was with Jim Jarmusch, called 'Dead Man.' I was in that with Johnny Depp. I ride really well, and I shoot a gun really well. I love the genre. Once I did Westerns, I was hooked.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Genre

• I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Language

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Law

• Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hate

• Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Differences
  • Growing Up
  • Convenience

• It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • People
  • Stop
  • Pain

• What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Winning
  • Sweet

• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• Playing tennis, I didn't tie in my self-worth into winning or losing matches.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Winning
  • Tennis