Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Blanchard

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Kristi Yamaguchi

Everything that happened in '92 was more than I had dreamed of... winning the U.S. title for the first time and then doing so well at the Olympics... It seemed to wrap things up so perfectly. I couldn't help thinking, 'How could I top that?'

Kingsley Amis

[Science fiction is] that class of prose narrative treating of a situation that could not arise in the world we know, but which is hypothesised on the basis of some innovation in science or technology, or pseudo-science or pseudo-technology, whether human or extra-terrestrial in origin. It is distinguished from pure fantasy by its need to achieve verisimilitude and win the 'willing suspension of disbelief' through scientific plausibility.

Oliver Kahn

Of course, success is a relative term. It can be something completely different from winning the German championship eight times or making millions.

Margaret Atwood

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

Marcus Samuelsson

You know that old expression "It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game". That line was definitely not coined by a chef. Because for a chef, it's only about whether or not you pull through. If you fail, nobody cares how hard you tried.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

Marcel Hirscher

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

Marcel Duchamp

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Manuel Pellegrini

I don't know the parameters for the Ballon d'Or. I only know that Messi deserves to win every trophy

Mara Liasson

Well, we had a bunch of primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. Bernie Sanders won the Nebraska and Kansas caucuses. That keeps his campaign alive. But Hillary Clinton won Louisiana, which was the big prize of the night, so she ended up winning more delegates than he did yesterday.

Kinky Friedman

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

Kevin Millar

Don't let us win tonight. This is a big game. They've got to win because if we win we've got Pedro coming back today and then Schilling will pitch Game 6 and then you can take that fraud stuff and put it to bed. Don't let the Sox win this game.

Kelly Clarkson

If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

Kelly Clarkson

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Margaret Thatcher

You don't win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear.

Margaret Thatcher

First you win the argument, then you win the vote.

Margaret Thatcher

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Ashley Benson

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Ben Roethlisberger

The biggest thing isn't necessarily how I play, but that we win. That's my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that's all that matters to me.

Bear Bryant

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Bruce Springsteen

Nobody wins unless everybody wins.

Paul Virilio

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Paul Tsongas

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

Paul Wolfowitz

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.

Mel Brooks

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mary Pierce

Winning a Grand Slam changes everything. There is so much off-court stuff to deal with. And there are expectations of keeping it going that make it tough

Martin Compston

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

Pierre de Coubertin

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts.

Rachael Taylor

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.