Phil Niekro Quotes

I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

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• Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

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• I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

  

  Natalia Makarova
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• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

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• For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

  

  Lara St. John
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• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.

  

  Uday Kotak
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• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
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• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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• I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.

  

  Laura Ricketts
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• At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.

  

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• But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
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• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

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• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

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• I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
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• My favorite subject was English, and I wanted to study English abroad when I was young, when I was a kid, but my mom said 'No, it's too dangerous to go abroad by yourself.' So I gave up.

  

  Doona Bae
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• It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

  

  Alice Miller
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• Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

  

  Jeff Buckley
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• We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

  

  Donald Miller
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  • World
  • Good

• I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great!

  

  Harry Melling
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• I would think every organization has pitchers who have good talent but just don't have what it takes to make it with what they've got.

  

  Phil Niekro
  • Good
  • Organization