Nicole Haislett Quotes

Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

Nicole Haislett

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• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Easier
  • Moderation

• Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Growing
  • Internet
  • Partnerships

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Important
  • Balance
  • Find

• Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Losing

• When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Feeling

• This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • Book

• It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Mission
  • Prepare

• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Words

• He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

  

  Owen Feltham
  • God
  • May
  • Happy

• Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Fear
  • Hurt
  • Desert

• Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • May
  • Fear
  • Courage

• Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'

  

  David Suzuki
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Men
  • Real

• I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

  

  Coleman Randolph Hawkins
  • Words
  • Style

• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

  

  David Seabury
  • Action
  • Wise
  • Wishes

• I've learned ... that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Perfect
  • Fall
  • Marriage

• I work as hard as anybody will ever work and I like that. That's why I've been successful and that is when I feel good about myself. If I do my damnedest and don't succeed, I feel good about the effort.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Challenges
  • Achievement

• I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Simple

• I was an electrician, and I started acting as a hobby because I needed a distraction - I was bored! And only when I started did I think, 'Sheesh, what have I gotten into?' I had to go after it fully; I just had to.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Bored

• Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was the time and the effort you invested that led to your high achievement.

  

  Nicole Haislett
  • Effort
  • Achievement
  • Champion