Ted Lyons Quotes

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

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• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

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• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

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• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

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• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

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• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

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• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

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• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

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• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

  

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• A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.

  

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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

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• Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

  

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• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

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• It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

  

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• As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

  

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• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

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• There is probably no such thing as a good divorce, but clinging to an old idea of how relationships are unraveled can make a bad thing even worse.

  

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• People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

  

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• Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

  

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• I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

  

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  • Writing

• I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Keep