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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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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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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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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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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I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'
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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
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Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.
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Three weeks ago, he’d seen hail fall from the sky, only to be followed minutes later by a spectacular rainbow that seemed to frame the azalea bushes. The colors, so vivid they seemed almost alive, made him think that nature sometimes sends us signs, that it’s important to remember that joy can always follow despair. But a moment later, the rainbow had vanished and the hail returned, and he realized that joy was sometimes only an illusion.
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Good or bad, everything we do is our best choice at that moment.
