Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) Quotes
My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air-the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.
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The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
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The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important.
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I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.
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The only thing darker than 'Overboard' is 'Micki & Maude,' the bigamy comedy from 1984.
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I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.'
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Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.
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To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom charitable souls keep their distance, he has still said nothing. Or, rather, he has spoken through the voice of Victor Hugo, Zola, Richepin. At least, they said so. And these shameful impostures fed their authors. Cruel irony, the Poor Man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
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I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
