Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Rafael Nadal

He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all

Rafael Nadal

The US player Andy Roddick reaches speeds of 220 kilometers per hour when he serves. If I train with him every day, I will later be at an advantage against a player whose service crosses the net at 190 kilometers per hour.

Rafael Nadal

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Rafael Nadal

Some people may learn something from the way I play tennis. But there are also players who are better than me in certain techniques.

Rafael Nadal

I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.

Nina Jacobson

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Nomar Garciaparra

All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.

Nolan Ryan

I can't imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.

Ali Farahnakian

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

Alfred Jarry

To be weird! That is my goal!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

Alex Ferguson

You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.

Aldous Huxley

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Aldous Huxley

Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be

Albert Einstein

The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.

Alexander Herzen

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Alexander Graham Bell

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Angel Olsen

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Amanda Lindhout

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

Anita Sarkeesian

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to have a broad range of women from across generations and cultures. We didn't want to make it Western-focused, we wanted to make sure it was international and that it had an intersectional lens.

Richard Bach

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Robert Fritz

One of the most important results you can bring into the world is the you that you really want to be.

Richard McCabe

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

Thornton Wilder

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Timothy Leary

The most important thing you do in your life is to die.

Thomas S. Monson

We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.