George Steinbrenner Quotes

I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

George Steinbrenner

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• Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • War
  • Always
  • Human

• I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Look
  • Forward
  • Sure

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Enthusiasm
  • Table

• Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Marriage
  • Balance
  • End

• I think now what you're seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Hockey

• Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

  

  James Carville
  • Remember
  • House

• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • Together
  • Faith

• We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Future
  • Shopping

• The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.

  

  Astro Teller
  • People
  • Control
  • Car

• My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.

  

  Penny Junor
  • Work
  • School
  • Art

• The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Women

• I like both antireligious and traditional Catholic imagery.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Catholic

• I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Parents

• I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Yourself

• I'm not a guy who's in the paper a lot, so I didn't really know about it until a couple of players came up to me

  

  Larry Taylor Canned Heat
  • Guy
  • Players
  • Paper

• I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Guy
  • Winning
  • Breathing