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• I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

  Nina Simone

  Success, Determination, Practice

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• I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Horse

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• Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

  Marlo Thomas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun-tzu, Hagopian Institute (2008). “Art of War, Plain English Edition: One of the Greatest Strategy Books in the History of the World, Now in an Easy to Read Version”, p.64, Hagopian Institute

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• These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Way

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Army

  Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing

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• We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Distance

  Lionel Giles', Sun Tzu (1910). “Sun Tzu's Art of War - Illustrated & Translated for Modern Readers”, p.28, SJ Creations Tokyo

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• The nicest Father's Day surprise of all for Dad would be if you handed him a box, and he unwrapped it, and there, inside, sitting on a bed of folded tissue, was the pair of his undershorts that somebody threw away six months ago (without asking Dad) because they had reached the stage where they were 3 percent undershorts and 97 percent holes. Dad misses those undershorts. They were his Faithful Undershorts Companion.

  Dave Barry

  Fathers Day, Dad, Missing

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• Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.

  Stephen Covey

  Workout, Health, Exercise

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.365, Mango Media Inc.

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• You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

  David Lloyd George

  Character, Golf, Men

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• Some things cannont possibly happen, because they are both too improbable and too perfect. The U.S. hockey team cannot beat the Russians in the 1980 Olympics. Jack Nicklaus cannot shoot 65 to win the Masters at age forty-six. Nothing else comes immediately to mind.

  Thomas Boswell

  Team, Golf, Hockey

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• And the trouble with me is that my ego just can't accept a loss. I suppose that if I were more perfectly adjusted, I would toss off defeat, but my name is on this ball club. Thirty-six men publicly reflect me and reflect on me, and it's a matter of my pride.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2014). “Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Moving, Player

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• You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Law, President

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• They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Army, May, Hundred

  Desiderius Erasmus (1959). “The Praise of Folly”

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• I spent six years at United and I owe them everything that I am today. I made history at United and won many trophies. It was a pleasure to play at Old Trafford.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, Years

  "Cristiano Ronaldo says 'maestro' Sir Alex Ferguson made him less selfish", www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2009.

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• You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Fighting, Risk

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• It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Sleep, Wind

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected with Notes Critical and Explanatory”, p.134

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Time, Memories, Believe

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• At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

  Natalia Yurchenko

  Workout, Gymnastics, Two

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• The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

  Todd Blackledge

  Sports, Volleyball, Winning

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• In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Fighting, Russia

  "War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

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• Shout out to all my niggas livin tax free. Nowadays it's six figures when they tax me.

  Drake

  Humble, Bragging, Figures

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• Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

  Douglas Adams

  Alcohol, World, Bitter

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.38, Del Rey

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