William Glasser Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.
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We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
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Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
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Nature is neutral.
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There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
