Beats Quotes - Page 28

• All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees.

  Charles Ives

  Heart, Blood, Sea

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.41, 1st World Publishing

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• If you are not physically strong, it's difficult. But at the same time, I think you need something more than that; you need to vary your shots, as Justine has been able to do in Amelia or Charleston, where she beat her -- I can't remember where it was on clay. So you need this kind of thing. But of course if you're not fit, you'll never make it through.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Strong, Thinking, Able

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• Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

  Alison McGhee

  Hurt, Heart, Ache

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• It's not that you don't want to earn as much money as you can - it is your obligation, of course - but companies have obligations beyond that and they certainly have obligations beyond that at certain times, in the times in which they operate. And they also certainly ought to know that meeting and beating expectations is probably yesterday's game and it will be increasingly so, which would be by the way very healthy for companies. Running a company that meets and beats expectations, and that runs their company accordingly, are companies that I would question why anyone would invest in.

  Barry Diller

  Running, Games, Yesterday

  "Diller to profitable companies: Lay off the layoffs" by Ben Klayman, blogs.reuters.com. December 4, 2008.

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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Summer, Sweet, Unique

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• I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Interesting, Looks, Opponents

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• A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Player, What If, Way

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• I'm not going to entertain something that took place not three months, not six months, not a year but two years ago. I'm not going to sit up here and say anything about it, whether I did or did not do it, because I don't want to beat a dead horse talking about it. It's not going to affect me any way, shape or fashion.

  Cam Newton

  Fashion, Horse, Talking

  "Report: FBI to Investigate Pay-for-Play Allegations Against Auburn Quarterback", www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2010.

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• Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.

  Arvo Part

  Here I Am, Silence, Comfort

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• Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

  Agnes de Mille

  Greed, Missing, Curiosity

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• And then in life, you always have to try, and today, I may not have succeeded, but I am happy to have tried to beat my record.

  Noureddine Morceli

  Trying, Records, May

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• I don't have a specific mantra; It's more about believing that I'm tough. I've been through a lot, and I'm not wiling to let myself get beat.

  Katie Hoff

  Believe, Tough, Mantras

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• Wherever there's a system, there's a racket to beat it.

  Jerome Ravetz

  Racket

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• But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Team, Race, People

  Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee (2012). “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy”, p.59, Brynjolfsson and McAfee

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• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Blood, Finals

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• Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

  Chris Moneymaker

  Champion, Want, Able

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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• If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you

  Louis C. K.

  Disappointment, Ifs

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• I’m excited to join Power 105.1 in New York and The Beat in Miami and expand my brand even further in the coming months.

  Angie Martinez

  New York, Months, Miami

  "BREAKING NEWS: Angie Martinez Joins The Power 105.1 Family!" by Vanessa Denis, power1051.iheart.com.

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• Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.

  Ruth Stout

  Philosophical, Farming, Farmers

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.

  Craig Kielburger

  Children, Kids, Winter

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• In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jumping, Yelling, Ducks

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• At a youth soccer game you'll probably hear parents and coaches on the sidelines yelling, 'Pass the ball! Pass the ball!' ... When we continually tell our young players to pass the ball, we're not allowing them to develop their full potential, especially those who have the ability to take their opponents on and beat them one-on-one. As a result, we run the risk of diminishing a player's artistry and potential.

  Tony DiCicco

  Soccer, Running, Player

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• I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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