Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Change

• Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Up
  • Man

• I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Book
  • Myself

• I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • You
  • Quality
  • Will

• I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Help
  • Learning
  • Learn

• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Want
  • Best
  • Look

• We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Done
  • See
  • Apple

• I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Interests
  • Lebanese

• I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Me
  • Look
  • Songs

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• Police can only act on intelligence.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Police
  • Intelligence
  • Only

• The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Happy
  • More
  • View

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Question

• I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Men
  • Women
  • Enjoy

• To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Long
  • Done
  • Waiting

• It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

  

  Aime Martin
  • Requires
  • Quarrel
  • Institute

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Poverty
  • Pride

• Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Myself
  • Language
  • Learn

• I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • South Africa