Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ivern Ball

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

David DeMartini

It by no means was related to his enthusiasm for the performance. He gave it everything he had.

Allan Smith

He's a 21-year-old kid who's loaded with motivation and enthusiasm and we wanted to give him the opportunity to excel in this industry.

Pat Williams

He?s a refreshing kid, ... He loves to play. He?s got great enthusiasm for the game? Let?s hope he can stay strong.

Steve Alford

I think it's great. You never like to lose. But I think because of the loss, the guys know what they have to do. There is more sense of an urgency. They've been unified the whole time. But I sense more excitement and enthusiasm over the weekend than any kind of pressure.

Henry Hyde

I think that the House has a lot less enthusiasm for the U.N. than exists outside the House.

Mike Shula

I thought the tempo and enthusiasm from our guys was real good. We have a lot of positions that are open, nine positions specifically. We have to get used to reacting faster and playing better as a group.

Larry Brown

I was just looking for something to give us enthusiasm and effort, ... I would have been horrified if they didn't fight back. But I was proud of the effort.

Farid Ayar

There is an enthusiasm to vote. Even in the last month we have registered one million more people,

Max Beerbohm

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Totie Fields

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Joe Johnson

I thought we were on the verge, but a loss is a loss.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Becca McArdle

We've experienced a loss and so we now know what that's like.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Joan Bonvicini

This was not our day; it was actually a very embarrassing loss for us.

Tracy Morgan

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.