Willie Lanier Quotes

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Willie Lanier

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• In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Reality
  • Giving

• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Opportunity
  • Marketing
  • Never Forget

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• Every child should get an opportunity to study irrespective of the economic status.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Opportunity
  • Study
  • Child

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Opportunity

• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Experience
  • Society

• I've been a staunch advocate of women's empowerment, and I've worked hard throughout my career to advance the cause. It is heartening to see that gender equality is really becoming more of a reality. There is still much more to be done, and I'm confident that, by working together, we can empower women worldwide.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Women
  • Done
  • Together

• I am not a player.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Player

• I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• I had done this all by myself. No one had performed the magic for me. I and the shapes were alone together, revealing themselves in a silently respectful dialogue. Since I could bare lines into living reality, I was all powerful. I could read.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Done
  • Together
  • Reality

• Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Opportunity
  • Energy
  • Lost

• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Football
  • Couple
  • Flying

• Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

  

  Bjork
  • Trying
  • Football
  • Sorry

• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Small
  • Attention
  • California

• It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All men are mortal Socrates is a man therefore Socrates is mortal; it is unanswerably urged by the adversaries of the syllogistic theory, that the proposition, Socrates is mortal.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Conclusion
  • Socrates
  • Syllogism

• Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • World
  • America
  • War

• My dad treated Marilyn Monroe more like his daughter than me.

  

  Susan Strasberg
  • Dad
  • Daughter
  • Treated

• I completely think of myself as sexual. Completely and utterly. Probably more so than I did when I was 30. I don't know why. I'm very comfortable with how I look. I'm absolutely committed to never having anything done to my face. I would never let anyone near me with a Botox needle.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Done
  • Why

• My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Football