Havens Quotes - Page 3

• The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

  Ron Greenwood

  Soccer, Football, Suffering

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• The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

  William Arthur Ward

  Appreciation, Blessing, Luxury

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Some people think that I haven't got the brains to be that clever.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Clever, Thinking

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• We all have something to offer. It's so important to be able to step out of our comfort zone and share the benefit of our experience with others who are trying to find their way. You can make a real difference and have real impact. I haven't experienced anything more satisfying than that.

  David Gregory

  Real, Differences, Impact

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• Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

  Mark Suster

  Sexy, Reality, Self

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• It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.

  Caterina Fake

  Beginners, Done, Kind

  "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.

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• There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Loss, Ache

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Feelings, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• As I said, I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about partner brands.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Thinking, Partners, Said

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• It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like, listening to Pavement, it's just the Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

  Mark E. Smith

  Fall, Ideas, Listening

  "20 Years On: Revisiting Pavement's Slanted And Enchanted" by Jim Keoghan, thequietus.com. April 27, 2012.

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• But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

  Ed O'Brien

  Kids, Sound, Fans

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  Ed O'Brien

  Long, Stuff, Computer

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• I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.

  Nevil Shute

  Newspapers, Glad

  Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

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• There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

  Nevil Shute

  Jobs, Men, Today

  Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”

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• I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

  Bella Pollen

  Disappointment, Thinking, Want

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• We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. It's good. I'm grateful for everything we have done throughout our careers and if there's nothing else to put out, then there's nothing to put out. I'm constantly writing and working. It doesn't stop there.

  GZA

  Grateful, Writing, Years

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• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Nice, America, People

  "Skip Gates Speaks". Interview with Dayo Olopade, www.theroot.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

  Mitch Albom

  Stranger

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• It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

  George Harrison

  Order, People, Outrage

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• The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.

  Seth Shostak

  Moon, Numbers, World

  "There Are ‘Tens Of Billions’ Of Habitable Planets In Our Galaxy, Astronomer Seth Shostak Says" by Lee Speigel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2014.

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• Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.

  Ian Tattersall

  Hominids, Adapted

  Ian Tattersall (2012). “Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins”, p.137, Macmillan

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• Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back. Learn to create your own opportunities. Know that there is no finish line; fortune favors action. Race balls-out toward the extraordinary life that you’ve always dreamed of, or still haven’t had time to dream up. And prepare to have a hell of a lot of fun along the way.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Dream, Fun, Opportunity

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.14, Penguin

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Frustrated

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

  Janet Fish

  Painting, Feels, Objects

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• I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Dream, Years, Singing

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