Intimidated Quotes - Page 8

• I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.

  Don Haskins

  Best Coaches, Coaches

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• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time

  Alec Waugh

  Wine, Hobbies, Needs

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• There is nothing to be intimidated about - it's just another long run where a few more people show up and they happen to wear numbers.

  Wess Stafford

  Running, Numbers, Long

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• For over a half century now I've watched office obesity develop into a full-blown, crippling disease. As our office clutter mounts, we're ever more intimidated and frustrated by it. We engineer drainage and removal of water and liquid wastes from society to prevent hazardous buildup, but the effluent that pours into our offices-paper-is never flushed out.

  Don Aslett

  Water, Office, Frustrated

  Don Aslett (2004). “The Office Clutter Cure”, p.2, Adams Media

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• I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.

  David Bowie

  People, Touching, Cold

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• Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Character, Numbers, Rejection

  FaceBook post by Nassim Nicholas Taleb from Dec 16, 2014

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• I want to say that I cannot be intimidated or stopped. In order to put an end to various attempts to get rid of me as a possible candidate, I want to say that I'm running for president.

  Vitali Klitschko

  Running, Order, President

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• This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it.

  Tom Ford

  Crazy, People, Sound

  "Tom Ford: a single man and his address book" by Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2010.

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• Good hitters don't become intimidated. They become infuriated.

  Ken Singleton

  Interview with Matt Warden, riveraveblues.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.

  Jeremy Luke

  People, Uncomfortable, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• The sad fact is that today most of the heads of big businesses in America have become so confused or intimidated that, so far from carrying the free market to argument to the enemy, they fail to defend themselves adequately even when attacked.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Confused, America, Enemy

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• Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Mother, Regret, Self Esteem

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• I meet so many people who are intimidated by arithmetic.

  Bill Nye

  People, Arithmetic

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'

  William Julius Wilson

  Government, Talking, Support

  Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. 1996.

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• I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

  George Lucas

  Two, Legs, Firsts

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• The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.

  Carl Jung

  Teacher, Taken, Class

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• Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Often Is, Mind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

  Larry Norman

  Lonely, Trying, Different

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Flower, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Home, Eye, Degrees

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• Players aren't quite as intimidated by my name.

  Pete Sampras

  Player, Names

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• When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

  Claire Forlani

  Insecure, Thinking, People

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• We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

  Dan Meyer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Math

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• There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian intellect has no reason to be intimidated in the presense of later-stage modernity. Christianity has seen too many 'modern eras' to be cowed by this one.

  Thomas Oden

  Christian, Quality, Eras

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• Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success or determination to reach the highest peaks of the mountains, and reign over them.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Determination, Jealous

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