Majors Quotes - Page 29

• Stretching was a major part of my preparation.

  Edwin Moses

  Preparation, Stretching

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• One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.

  Edwin Moses

  Competition, Beats, Competitors

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Running, Dog

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• Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

  Brendon Urie

  Piano, Imagine, Make You Happy

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• No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.

  Walter Willett

  Impact, Make Or Break, Kind

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• Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Writing, Weakness, Needs

  WILLIAM STRUNK, JR. (1959). “THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE”

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• The major strategy of Satan is to distort the character of God and the truth of who we are. He can't change God and he can't do anything to change our identity and position in Christ. If, however, he can get us to believe a lie, we will live as though our identity in Christ isn't true.

  Neil T Anderson

  Lying, Believe, Character

  Neil T. Anderson (2010). “Victory Over the Darkness (Large Print 16pt)”, p.35, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and their inhabitants--also express their own distinctive ethos or values. The Spirit of Cities takes the reader on a wide-ranging and lively personal journey.

  Witold Rybczynski

  Journey, Ethos, Cities

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• The best thing that happened during the filming of Out Cold is that I forged a friendship with Lee Majors that endured for almost 12 weeks.

  Thomas Lennon

  Cold, Week, Best Things

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• There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

  Earl Weaver

  Stars, League, Inevitable

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• As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out.

  Ben Goldacre

  Oxygen, Blood, Water

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

  Ralph Metzner

  Life Changing, Believe, Events

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• IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

  Ginni Rometty

  Passion, Thinking, Technology

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• But I'm hopeful some of that will start to change. The public is more libertarian, the public is saying we want people who are going to be independent and not bow to leadership in either of the major parties.

  Justin Amash

  Party, Independent, People

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• Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

  Jim Stanford

  Children, Caring, Impact

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

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• This is an extremely ambitious book. In addition to science and mathematics, Byers brings to bear insights from literature, philosophy, religion, history, anthropology, medicine, and psychology. The Blind Spot breaks new ground, and represents a major step forward in the philosophy of science. The book is also a page-turner, which is rare for this topic.

  Joseph Auslander

  Philosophy, Book, Blind Spots

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Frustration, Causes

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• Meatless Mondays is a dead-simple strategy. Anyone can do it, and it doesn’t require major sacrifice. Even if you eat a typical American diet replete with processed, junk and fast food the other six days of the week, going meatless on Mondays will still cut your carbon footprint, improve your health and reduce demand for factory-farm meat.

  Mark Bittman

  Monday, Sacrifice, Cutting

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• Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift.

  Jay Baer

  Moving, Media, Littles

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• My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

  Rex Hunt

  Thinking, Whales, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

  Jared Diamond

  Motivation, Inspiration, Today

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• The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

  Stuart Chase

  Business, Games, Effort

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• I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

  Erik Estrada

  Broken, Motorcycle, Ribs

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• What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion.

  Marty Meehan

  Years, Oil, America

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