Muhammad Ali Quotes

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

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• I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Why

• While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Good
  • Space
  • Focus

• I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Person
  • Type

• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Beginning

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Class
  • Few

• It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Color
  • Out
  • Dictates

• I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hope

• I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Play
  • See

• I'm kind of an antsy person.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Antsy

• 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

• I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Agree
  • Comparisons

• Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Lost
  • Problem
  • Crazy

• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Music
  • Collaboration

• If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Glory

• I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Thing

• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• That's the first time I've ever faced Billy. He threw me a fastball in, then inside again. The last pitch was 99 mph, so I could have popped it up.

  

  Craig Biggio
  • First
  • Pitch
  • Fastball

• To me, wrestling always comes first.

  

  Bayley
  • Always
  • First
  • Wrestling

• There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that - that's their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Good
  • Different
  • Encouraging

• Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Day

• The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

  

  Charles Taze Russell
  • Friends

• I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • First
  • Gym
  • Leave