Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Day

The positive in the three losses is that Shane has been forced to grow technically to counteract Brennan's style.

Kobe Bryant

It's a different challenge, but something we've tried to do all season long is just learn how to play with one another. And what I mean by that is to play to everybody's strengths, know what our weaknesses are and how to counteract that, pretty much pick each other up.

Gail Sheehy

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.

John Rother

Still, none of these discount programs can counteract the full impact of these price increases. Even with the discounts, these prices are hurting people.

Roy Williams

It was a game where I was hoping our speed would counteract some of their strength. But we weren't able to do that.

Wissam Nasr

We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.

David Hood

Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

Nicholas Negroponte

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

Nolan Sotillo

I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums.

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become.

Jordan Spieth

Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more.

Eugene Doro

When you see a team like that, you can learn by just watching them play.

Chanakya

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Charles Stanley

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

Charles Spurgeon

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Jared Dudley

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

Wendy Mead

They play as a team and pick each other up.

William Cotton

They have a right to pick and select who they want...and that's what I'm sticking by- their decision.

Sam Smith

This has been a long process. You have to be patient. Whether someone picks me or not, you just have to want it.

Kelly Herndon

They tried to run a pick play on me, but I read it right and went underneath.

Brad Hawpe

It's not like we're going to sit here on this one and rest on that for a while. We've got to pick back up on Wednesday and come back at them and keep grinding. Because we battled today.

Amy White

They are picking things up really fast. Things went really well.

Alonzo Mourning

It's an unfortunate circumstance. But if I had to pick a time to get injured, I'd have picked this time, before we go into the post-season.

David Brody

It's a little overwhelming for her, ... but she's picking up phrases very easily.

Billy Donovan

We're right back to where we were before the season started.

Chris Bolt

Third place is very satisfying. We've had some tough seasons and to have the seniors go out like this is awesome.

Joe Blodgett

For a lot of individuals it would've been over. She was not going to end her season on the bench.

Eric Schmidt

It's only one game. There's a long season ahead, and our section is pretty balanced.

Randy Rice

This is the oddest season I've ever been through. Not because of the co-op. But it's been one thing after another.

Tiara Cook

There's been nothing. It did get boring. You're not supposed to have a senior season like this. But you go on.

Brian Daubach

There's a lot of season left. We haven't started yet. It's not the 25 you start with. It's the 25 you end the season with.

Pat Hill

It was sort of the story of our season down the stretch.

Gwyn Howat

It was a wild weather year. The big thing this season was extremes.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Darrent Williams

I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.

Cara Bortz

I tried to get into (the open) spaces.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Jeremy Shockey

I tried it their way and now I wanted to try it my way,

Jerome Williams

It was gone, so I tried to go back out there and put up some more zeros.

John Updike

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

Nick Punto

I've never really tried that in a game,

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Billy Donovan

I don't really see too many weaknesses with those guys.

Jeff Gundy

I don't think they have many weaknesses. I didn't think they had many weaknesses before, either.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.