Al Leiter Quotes

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

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• My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Day
  • motivation

• I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Travel
  • Lot
  • Speaking

• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • School
  • Reading
  • Year

• When we announced that we were going to support Bitcoin companies, we became a great lightning rod for activity and fun.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Support

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Mother
  • Father
  • German

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It's not like you got to burn CDs and pass them out or sell them. The Internet is a tool that reaches billions and billions of people. It's like a no-brainer to tie it in with self-promotion, or even label promotion.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Internet
  • Now

• For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

  

  Xenophon
  • Strong
  • Water
  • Beer

• It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Hard
  • Year

• The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• When I first joined the team, I was playing with the likes of Mia Hamm, Shannon MacMillan, Tiffeny Milbrett - all those big-time players. It was very intimidating. I had some of these players' posters on my wall growing up, and now I was able to play with them.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Church
  • Jews
  • Early

• My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • World
  • Journey
  • Moment

• Music will save the world.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Music
  • Will

• Greater is our terror of the unknown.

  

  Livy
  • Unknown

• Logic is logic. That's all I say.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• The wisest man could ask no more of FateThan to be simple, modest, manly, true,Safe from the Many - honored by the Few;To count as naught in World or Church or State;But inwardly in secret to be great.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • World
  • Great
  • True

• It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Nature

• Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.

  

  David Gell
  • Citizens
  • Warrior
  • Weapons

• When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Business
  • Rose

• Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?

  

  Socrates
  • Better
  • Clever
  • Ridiculous

• For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with the Mets.

  

  Al Leiter