Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Corso

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Flip Saunders

I think the one thing that people underestimate is that when there's adversity and they become challenged they rise up to the occasion. They love those types of situations. That's why this team is built for the playoffs.

John Tortorella

We talked about this as an organization before we started the season. We felt there were going to be some bumps and quite a bit of adversity coming through, and we've seen it. But it's a learning experience. We are going to have to learn to deal with it. We are going to have to have a better second half, and I believe we will.

Bryan Shelton

We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.

Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Samuel Richardson

The unhappy never want enemies.

Wayne Graham

Everybody can have a bad game, and we did. These guys have all proven that they can handle adversity. We're in the midst of a little adversity.

Robert Falcon Scott

Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.

Walt Frazier

Building discipline, earning respect and overcoming adversity are all parts of a winning game plan. If you don't have a game plan, where are you going? When I'm talking about a game plan, I'm talking about how you go about being the best player you can be and how you go about being successful in life.

Christopher Burdick

I wouldn't put 100 pounds; that's just overkill. Remember that the weight affects gas mileage as well.

Steve Dunn

Jacob pitched a great game. He actually got slower as the game went on, and I think that really affected their rhythm.

George Young

Just remember to show some compassion. When you talk about firing a coach, you're not talking about how it affects one man. You're talking about how it impacts 14 families the family of every assistant coach. You're talking about 30, 40, 50 people and a lot of them are children.

King Hussein

Jordanians are responsible people and they will not be affected by what is said to undermine Parliament's role, dignity and its influence.

Jennifer Atkinson

It affects working waterfront, access, scenic view and character of a town. We're really trying to open that discussion and get towns to cooperate.

Mike Hall

It affects them to whether they can actually continue to afford my service.

Ben Alexander

It affects the income, no doubt. Most people just want to wait for the good days. But figuring which days those are is hard enough.

Frank Culbertson

It affected us over several days, and every morning when I opened the mail (e-mail), there would be some new piece of information that would hit me pretty hard.

O. Singh

It affected my performance in Zimbabwe tour as well. I could not concentrate on my game due to immense pressure that if I commit any mistake, the coach will definitely make it an issue against me,

Michael Robinet

It was a marriage made in heaven. GM needed low-cost development capabilities in Asia, and Daewoo needed stability and an external market.

John Ortberg

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

Jennifer Scott

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

Graham Moore

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Alberto Fujimori

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion, ... One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

Ralph Trine

To be at one with God is to be at peace ... peace is to be found only within, and unless one finds it there he will never find it at all. Peace lies not in the external world. It lies within one's own soul.

Bradley Whitford

Life is too challenging for external rewards to sustain us.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Laura Vandervoort

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Jeff Judkins

Havlicek was my idol, so I didn't mind one bit.

Sandra Allen

Her mind was very sharp and never aged.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Susan Dolan

I think it's important to be mindful about how you live every day - what you think, and how you live. It's part of a mindful lifestyle.

Phil Jackson

I think the only thing it did was take our mind off the game.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.

Jean Charest

It could be a strong and powerful symbol of our relationship,

Laura Harper

I think it was a powerful move. It was very inspirational. To be able to sit and look out on the court, it was awesome.

Alfonso G. Robles

The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited", "winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war"

Adrian Burgos

He is a powerful voice. He reminds us what is at stake. We know we have to be sober-minded in our deliberation.

Richard Dawkins

You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.' And you want to make sure it is used for good purposes, not bad ones. That is a political decision.

Richelle Mead

This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.

Richelle Mead

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Ronan Farrow

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.