Erwin Rommel Quotes

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin Rommel

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

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Television

• 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

• If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Hope
  • Want

• Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Trying
  • Happy

• If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • House
  • Fire

• True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

  

  May Sarton
  • May
  • True
  • Feeling

• I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Time
  • Dance
  • Yoga

• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  

  Daniel H. Pink
  • Important
  • Science
  • Perspective

• I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing. You have to be a salesman, and you have to get your players, particularly your leaders, to believe in what you're trying to accomplish on the basketball floor.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Trying

• I did two master's degrees - aeronautics and astronautics, and the second one was technology and policy. That taught me how to think about issues in science and technology as they relate to the general public.

  

  Emily Calandrelli
  • Science
  • Technology

• I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

  

  Burt Bacharach
  • School

• There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

  

  Augusten Burroughs

• I have spent many years working in education and media, from hosting documentaries to being a spokesperson for Discovery Education to revolutionizing youth environmental service through my non-profit, EarthEcho International.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Education
  • Service

• Unfortunately, I don't have much free time.

  

  Andy Lau
  • Time
  • Free

• Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Dark
  • Singing
  • Honest

• The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Think
  • You
  • Difference

• I feel like, all things aside, it's a really great time to be a woman. And I don't want to hear stories from, like, white dudes anymore. Like, not really. I want to hear stories from women.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Time
  • Great
  • Women

• Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

  

  Carroll Shelby
  • Arrogant
  • Drivers

• Anything but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination, to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a compromise with the 'mystery tramp,' as Bob Dylan put it.

  

  Dennis Overbye
  • Winning
  • Harmony
  • Combination

• Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Winning
  • Battle