Larry Bird Quotes

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

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• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Talent
  • Very
  • Hot

• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • World
  • American

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Body
  • Human

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.

  

  Gabriele Nanni
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• 'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • War
  • Mean
  • Struggle

• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Fighting

• Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Past
  • Theatre
  • Police

• The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Different

• The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  

  Larry Bird
  • God
  • Goals
  • Skills