Free Agents Quotes

• Man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, Matter

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• Our careers aren't paths so much as landscapes that are navigated. We're free agents, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs -- each with our own unique brand.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  Unique, Careers, Entrepreneur

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.28, Crown Business

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• You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Struggle, Sweat

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• I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Sports, Fighting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There exists in our society widespread fear of judging…[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done…Who has ever maintained that by judging a wrong I presuppose that I myself would be incapable of committing it?

  Hannah Arendt

  Judging, Doubt, Would Be

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• That's the reality, and you can't overlook it. Rod can be a free agent, but we don't want get ahead of ourselves. Rod is the starter now and at some point we'll address that. Rod's got the job and the experience and you hope Gerald learns from him.

  Jon Daniels

  Jobs, Reality, Agents

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• It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Doe, Agents, World

  Gregory A. Boyd (2000). “God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God”, p.31, Baker Books

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• Agents are probably going to hate me for saying it... You're not very valuable when you're making $20 million. When you're Mike Trout, making the minimum, you are crazy valuable. My first six years, before I was a free agent, I was very valuable. But there's nothing you can do that can justify a $20 million contract.

  Mark Teixeira

  Hate, Crazy, Years

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• Now I'm a free agent, literally and figuratively. I've reached that enviable state in life in which I can do pretty much what I want. And what I want is to continue to play basketball. I still love the game, and I still have something to offer. My coaches and teammates recognize that. At the same time, I want to be genuine and authentic and truthful.

  Jason Collins

  Basketball, Games, Play

  "Why NBA center Jason Collins is coming out now" by Jason Collins, www.si.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

  David Dunn

  Guy, Agents, Attractive

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• I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

  Johnny Damon

  Boston, Years, Great Year

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• I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

  Victor Cruz

  School, Kids, Player

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• Indeed, some secularists are so worried about Christianity, they think Christians are about as dangerous as Muslim terrorists. They get really worried when we don't invest our lives in this-worldly concerns. They look on us as unpredictable free agents. When we reject their relativism and make absolutist spiritual claims, they look at us as nervously as they would a terrorist with a suicide bomb strapped to his back. Of course, Christians are not into coercion in any form. But it is very hard to persuade secularists of that.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Suicide, Spiritual

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

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• I left 'Saturday Night Live' without a film to go to, and I'd filmed 'Old School' while I was in my last season of the show, and that hadn't come out yet. I was a free agent, in a way, but I knew it was time to leave the show and test the water.

  Will Ferrell

  School, Night, Water

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• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  Earl Weaver

  Team, Winning, Agents

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• How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

  Joel Salatin

  Mother, Fire, People

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• All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

  Glenn Beck

  Destiny, Men, Differences

  "An Inconvenient Book". Book by Glenn Beck, November 20, 2007.

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• Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it; and the greater power he ascribes to faith, the more he deprives himself of that power which God has given to him when He endowed him with the gift of reason.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Believe, Destiny, Men

  "Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt" by Giacomo Casanova, translated by Arthur Machen, 1894.

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• The only answer to this, and it isn't an entire answer, said Father Travis, is that God made human beings free agents. We are able to choose good over evil, but the opposite too. And in order to protect our human freedom, God doesn't often, very often at least, intervene. God can't do that without taking away our moral freedom. Do you see? No. But yeah. The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

  Louise Erdrich

  Father, Order, Opposites

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• The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.

  Joan Didion

  America, Secret, Desire

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• Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

  Albert Einstein

  Stars, Thinking, Feelings

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• We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Queens, Heart, Destiny

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.300

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• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Evil, Agents

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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