Steve Carlton (Steven Norman Carlton) Quotes

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Steve Carlton

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• I'm such a happy, easygoing person.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Easygoing

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Environment

• What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opportunity to understand our relationship in a more adult capacity. The unknown is great material for any creative outlet.

  

  K. Flay
  • Great
  • Music
  • Character

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Work
  • Business
  • Experience

• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Architecture
  • Engineering

• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Years

• Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Dream
  • Acting
  • Ability

• Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • People
  • Football
  • Win

• I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Real
  • Father
  • Like

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Live
  • New
  • Four

• It's always good to play tennis with a better player to bring out the best in you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Good
  • Play
  • Best

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • American
  • Career
  • Seem

• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Science
  • Like
  • Physics

• And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it possible that they should exist apart, but all things have a portion of everything.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Great
  • Everything
  • Number

• For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• I'm definitely optimistic about our competitiveness in 2006. I think if this team works hard all year, we'll be in good shape for the championship. There are so many good drivers in this series, it won't be easy, but that is what makes winning all the better.

  

  Helio Castroneves
  • Good
  • Team
  • Winning

• I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

  

  Steve Carlton
  • Yourself
  • Judgment
  • Shape