Robert W. Service Quotes

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

Robert W. Service

• Winning
• Race
• Quiet
• Steady
• Lifelong

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• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• In order to change the conversation about Muslims in American media, we need a diverse, unified movement of people who are willing to take a stand against anti-Muslim bias.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • American
  • Change

• Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • True
  • Yourself
  • Be True

• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Crush
  • Communism

• Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

  

  Barry White
  • Strong
  • Families
  • Brothers

• I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • High
  • Always
  • Quirky

• I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • God
  • Grace

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Language

• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • American
  • Truck
  • Drive

• I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • World
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.

  

  Levon Helm
  • People
  • Nice
  • Band

• I often feel that with a crime story, the moral standards have to be higher. You're deal with real victims and with real consequences.

  

  David Grann
  • Real
  • Moral

• I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

  

  Bindi Irwin

• Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

  

  David Droga
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Real

• Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

  

  Drake
  • People
  • Strong
  • Words

• Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?

  

  D.T. Max
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Past

• We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Democracy
  • Winning
  • Attitude

• The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

  

  Taiichi Ohno
  • Race
  • Causes
  • Waste

• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Power
  • Miracle

• It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Winning
  • Race
  • Quiet