Qualifying Quotes

• The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life.

  Julie B. Beck

  Skills, Personality, Important

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• Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held.  Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office.  Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

  Confucius

  Evil, Worry, Office

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• If enough money is involved and enough people believe that two plus two equals five the media will report the story with a straight face always adding a qualifying paragraph noting that mathematicians however say that two plus two still equals four.

  Susan Jacoby

  Believe, Media, Two

  FaceBook post by Susan Jacoby from Oct 13, 2012

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• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  Cobi Jones

  Years, Cities, Two

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• I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

  Stephanie Rice

  Team, Thinking, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Office, Favors

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it.

  Robbie Keane

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

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• The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.

  Michel Patini

  Team, Competition, Finals

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• My love admits no qualifying dross

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Dross

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition”, p.298, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• .......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

  James Traficant

  Politics, Truth Is, Hiding

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• I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Race, White

  Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas, Charleston, Ill., 18 Sept. 1858

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• I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.

  Retief Goosen

  School, Years, Two

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• When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

  Jenson Button

  Thinking, Pick Me Up, Insecurity

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• To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Country, Team, Home

  "Paula Radcliffe hits out at 'frivolous' use of 2012 Olympics cash". www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Qualifying is all about putting everything that you have and that the car has in one lap. It's like a rush, I really enjoy that.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Car, Lap, Enjoy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

  Tom Wolfe

  Simple, Men, Curves

  Tom Wolfe (2009). “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

  Richard Ford

  Cutting, Two, People

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• Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment…is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can’t provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Quality, Inquiring

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• The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

  Nigel Mansell

  Sports, Athlete, Weekend

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• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

  Alton Brown

  Mother, Daughter, Jobs

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• In actual fact, I wanted to be an actor, but I was a lawyer, and I was a week away from qualifying and was fired. And that's the day I made an announcement: "Hey, for seven years, you thought I was going to be a lawyer. Well, I'm not. I've just lost my job, and I'm packing my bags and moving to London tomorrow to be an actor."

  Gerard Butler

  Jobs, Moving, Years

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• Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Today, Clauses

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.151, Oxford University Press

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• The Gold Cup really is about getting the job done and winning it and qualifying us for the Confederations Cup in Russia in 2017. That's why it's really crucial for us to have players on the roster that have tremendous experience.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Jobs, Winning, Player

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• I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

  Bobby Rahal

  Missing You, Taken, Home

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• My first Indy 500 was one of my high points. I ended up qualifying fourth and I finished fourth. I had a win in Japan a few years later, and then qualifying for Daytona was great as well.

  Danica Patrick

  Winning, Japan, Years

  Source: www.askmen.com

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