Theo Epstein Quotes
Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.Theo Epstein
Quotes to Explore
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
J. Philippe Rushton -
In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
Barbara Delinsky -
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck -
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
Edgar Degas -
I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
Hannah Simone -
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
Eduardo Chillida -
Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
Pat Summerall -
If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.
Feist -
Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember - there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.
Madeleine Albright -
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
Jackie Chan -
It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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The constant influx of new cultures, new ideas and new ways of looking at old problems is a big part of the reason why America has been the most dynamic economy in the world for well over a century.
Gary Locke -
I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.
Natalia Kills -
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.
E. L. Doctorow -
The only way you can obtain brood mares on a basis you can afford is to buy two or three yearling fillies every year and race them. The good ones, the ones that show potentialities, you keep, and the others you get rid of. In that way, you have a chance to build up a good brood mare band.
Larry MacPhail -
I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.
Keith Barry -
I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
Bonnie Bedelia
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
Kat Graham -
I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
Walter Mosley -
Everyone is so afraid of making themselves look bad and of judgement.
Karrine Steffans -
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
Linda Chavez -
I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.
Meghan Daum -
Players that tend to respond to adversity the right way and triumph in the end are players with strong character. If you have enough guys like that in the clubhouse, you have an edge on the other team.
Theo Epstein