Boris Becker Quotes

The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

Boris Becker

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• The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • World
  • Job
  • Vision

• The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ourselves by severe self scrutiny, then in our neighbours by compassionate indulgence, and, finally, in its essential nature by that direct vision which belongs to the pure in heart.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • Nature

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• When I find someone who is worth it, I'll be nice and respect that person and put some time in.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Nice

• It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Nice
  • Always
  • See

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Man

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Heart
  • Through
  • Recall

• Any job is wonderful.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Job
  • Wonderful
  • Any

• American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • American
  • Nice

• Distant lover, ooo, sugarHow can you treat my heart so mean and cruel?Didn't you know, sugar, that I dreamOf what I spent with you?I treasure it like it was a precious jewel, oh baby.Lord have mercy!

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Heart
  • Baby
  • Mercy

• To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.

  

  Jaime Ray Newman
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• My mom and dad are second-generation Greek-Americans who instilled in our middle-class family the values of hard work, self-reliance, and service, exemplified by my father's tenure as a U.S. Marine who was stationed at Camp David under President Truman.

  

  James Costos
  • Work
  • Family
  • Father

• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Better

• The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.

  

  Boris Becker
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Nice