Richard Petty Quotes
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I definitely have curves. I don't intend on losing them.
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There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.
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We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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If you want to decide the question of migration without asking your citizens against the will of the people, you are fighting a losing battle.
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I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
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When I started losing business to salespeople who were using used-car salesmen kind of tactics, I realized I can't ignore the EQ thing; it's going to kill sales.
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Courtiers don’t take wagers against the king’s skill. There is the deadly danger of winning.
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
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After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.
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The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.
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By community I mean that community you have a special vision for, that only you see, that no one else in a room sees. That special community in pain, that through a pain you've suffered, you're able to have that vision, that super-ray vision.
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When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
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No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.
