Sheryl Swoopes Quotes

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• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Success
  • Man

• I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Love
  • Small
  • Comedy

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Game

• We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Change
  • Achievement

• Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Live
  • May

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Reading
  • Waves
  • Skin

• If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Wife
  • Marriage
  • Felt

• I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell

• If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.

  

  Jerome Powell

• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• It was right after I did Piaf, 'La Vie en Rose'. I started to take singing lessons and finding where I could go.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Singing
  • Rose

• At our peak, no one knew how to value Digg.

  

  Kevin Rose
  • Value

• You don't want to be a Kardashian.

  

  Bryan Cranston

• Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• For newspapers to continue to play an important role in civic engagement, they need more access to capital. Their decline has created a real threat to independent reporting at the state and local level.

  

  Ajit Pai
  • Important
  • Real
  • Independent

• Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.

  

  P. D. James
  • Remember
  • Hand

• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Sensual

• People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Luxury

• There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Women
  • Represent