Chip Heath Quotes
When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',..). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
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Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
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I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
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What you know not now you will know hereafter.
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I really want to be like my mom in some ways, because I already take a lot after her already. I really like the way she treats us and disciplines us, and I think that she's just great because of how she's balanced us and all of that.
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Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.
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I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.
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Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
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With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
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Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.
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I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.
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I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice.
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In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.
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I wasn't asleep! said Bruno, in a deeply-injured tone. 'When I shuts mine eyes, it's to show that I'm awake!'
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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When you’re at the beginning, don’t obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.
