Garrison Wynn Quotes

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

Garrison Wynn

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• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Fear

• I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Important
  • Player

• Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Moments
  • Never
  • Greatness

• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Goal
  • Accept

• We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Common
  • Tax
  • Particularly

• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Winning
  • Goal

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Common
  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Satisfaction

• Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Made
  • Greatness
  • Had

• Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Enemy

• Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

  

  Paracelsus
  • School
  • Nature
  • Enemy

• Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.

  

  Taliesin
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • World
  • Great
  • American

• What the enemy believed of you was probably true, or else why were you enemies in the first place?

  

  Clive Barker
  • Why
  • True
  • Enemy

• The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Soul
  • Ambition
  • Greatness

• The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Hurt

• I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Words
  • Meaning
  • Treat

• Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

  

  Eyedea
  • Reality
  • Change
  • Brains

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • People
  • Change
  • Trust

• Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Enemy
  • Goal
  • Common