Spurs Quotes - Page 3

• In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

  Burt Rutan

  Technology, Yield, Space

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

  Morinosuke Kawaguchi

  Girly, Technology, Japan

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• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

  Douglas Hurd

  Iraq, Might, Democratic

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• What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hard Work, Humility, Men

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  C. Z. Guest

  Girl, Want, Today

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• I was here at Spurs as a kid, too, and I cleaned David Ginola and David Howells boots. I got a nice tip of £60 from each of them at Christmas. Howells was quick to give me this but I had to ask Les Ferdinand to explain to Ginola about our boot etiquette and the tradition of tipping at Christmas. Everyone wanted to clean Les Ferdinand s boots because he was the best tipper. He gave out £100 one year.

  Peter Crouch

  Nice, Kids, Years

  "Peter Crouch Interview - Puma PowerCat 1.10". SoccerBible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.

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• The Spurs are a great WNBA team.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Glory

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• I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

  Algernon Sidney

  Believe, Men, Boots

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• Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions" he meant not moral passions or the passions of transcendent genius, but only low appetites or base desires, which society and economy ultimately shape and spur on in us.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Desire

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• Necessity is often the spur to genius.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Genius

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• Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.

  Tom Kelley

  Creativity, Long, Action

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.145, Crown Business

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• Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

  Graham Roberts

  Couple, Player, Fog

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• I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

  Geoffrey Boycott

  Ambition, Men, People

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• Owner Red McCombs has a track record for dumping teams - he owned both the NBA's Spurs and Nuggets at various times - and his stadium situation just isn't going to get resolved in the Twin Cities. Even some of his fellow owners have him No. 1 on the relocation list. I think Red might sell, ... He's been known to sell before.

  Bud Adams

  Team, Thinking, Nba

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• If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, House, Spur Of The Moment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3044, Manonmani Publishers

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• I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

  Bernard Baruch

  Son, Effort, Experience

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• The Spurs really are a family. They have a bunch of good guys that want to win, and the way they play is so unselfish. I’m looking forward to being involved in it. I feel that teams with players who are very close end up winning.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Team, Winning, Player

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• The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

  William James Mayo

  Moving, Learning, Science

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• [T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others

  John Dewey

  School, Skills, Competition

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• Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They are rewards he voluntarily strives for.

  Paul G. Hoffman

  Work, Men, Doe

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• Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
  To follow rule and climb the stately chair.

  George Peele

  Honor, Mind, Chairs

  Robert Greene, George Peele (1861). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Robert Greene and George Peele: With Memoirs of the Authors and Notes”, p.421

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• I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Thinking, Ideas, Judgement

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.158, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Anger can keep you warm at night, and wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Pride, Night, Men

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