Titles Quotes - Page 20

• The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in between, falls under this rubric. Happy is the person who comes to understand something and then gets to explain it.

  Marshall A. Cohen

  Teacher, Fall, Teaching

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• The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances.

  Max Euwe

  Machines, Chess, Drawbacks

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• If you are going to make your mark among masters, you have to work far harder and more intensively, or, to put it more exactly, the work is far more complex than that needed to gain the title of Master.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Success, Chess, Gains

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Religion, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• ...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Ideas, Numbers, Quality

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• Course titles and even course descriptions often fail to reveal what is actually taught (much less learned).

  F. M. Scherer

  Taught, Failing, Economics

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• The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

  Richard Dawkins

  Dna, Rivers, Tissues

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

  Layne Staley

  Dope, Whiskey, Junkie

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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• It means everything, definitely. I mean, it's Wimbledon. Tennis here is tennis history. Centre Court is always great to play on. I really feel like I'm at home. I was really up and down after my title here in 2011, but I still worked hard and believed in myself, and my team believed in me as well.

  Petra Kvitova

  Team, Mean, Home

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• It's not my goal, definitely. I mean, I don't think it's something I can really achieve. Definitely she's a great champion - she has nine titles. But it's nice to see her in the locker room, and she's smiling and she's happy for me. She's really cheering for me. It's nice to have someone like her.

  Petra Kvitova

  Cheer, Nice, Mean

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• For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

  John Fogerty

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

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• Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

  Cecelie Berry

  Confidence, Mistake, Self

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• I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw.

  Bob Dylan

  Sick, Leader, Want

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• Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

  John C. Maxwell

  Influence, True Leader, Values

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• They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight. Heavyweight title fights should be huge events, not an after-thought in a country most famous for producing Toblerones [chocolate].

  David Haye

  Country, Motivation, Fighting

  "David Haye questions Vitali Klitschko legacy". BBC Sport Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• Amir Khan will come back and he will win back the world title because I know the guy personally, and I know what he's made off. There's no quit in this guy.

  David Haye

  Motivation, Winning, Guy

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• Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Light, Ice

  'King John' (1591-8) act 4, sc. 2, l. 9

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• You can really Lead Without a Title.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Buisness

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• All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Leader, Peers

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• The best Leaders Without a Title use their heads and listen to their hearts.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Heart, Leader

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• Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Exercise, Leader

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• My most important title is Mom in Chief

  Michelle Obama

  Mom, Important, Chiefs

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• One of the gifts one movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered

  Roger Ebert

  Giving, Lovers, Wonderful

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• Focus on the impact you make versus the title you have.

  Robin Sharma

  Impact, Focus, Versus

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Oct 05, 2014

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• Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Mother, Verbs, Who You Are

  Twitter post from May 11, 2013

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