Don Zimmer Quotes
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
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Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Women just love to shop.
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There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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In the year 1921, I was successful for the first time in obtaining certain proof that by stimulation of the nerves in a frog's heart, substances were released which to some extent passed into the heart fluid and, when transferred with this into a test heart, caused it to react in exactly the same way as the stimulation of the corresponding nerves.
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I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.
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I?m just trying to do a little more talking to the guys and assuring them I am with them regardless, mistakes or no mistakes. I feel like it is important to let your teammates know that they can make mistakes, because you are definitely gonna make them. We feel like we can make mistakes and live with them if they are aggressive mistakes. I just talk to my squad as much as I can and just try to be there for them because that is what they do for me.
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Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.
