Bob Wickman Quotes

I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • Dumb
  • Unpredictable

• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Law
  • Religion
  • Slavery

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Me
  • Military

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The highlight of my career? The Olympics, of course.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Career
  • Course
  • Olympics

• Let's be honest: discrimination against Arabs exists in Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Israel
  • Discrimination

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  

  Cavour
  • Tax
  • Imbeciles

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Small

• The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Problems

• It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important

• I would love to go back to Broadway.

  

  Katie Finneran

• I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Time
  • Think
  • Questions

• Now a curse upon Because and his kin!

  

  Aleister Crowley

• I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Storm
  • Limelight
  • Lull

• For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Effort

• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Long
  • Hurt
  • Deep

• I get asked a lot about being their third choice, but I was the one who chose to make it harder on myself by wanting just a one-year deal. There were some owners with wide eyes when I told them that. I wanted it that way because, if I got hurt, I could just walk off and go home.

  

  Bob Wickman
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