Unlikely Quotes - Page 15

• If you have a habit of declaring milestones or changing them based on the crisis of the day, don't expect the team to remain motivated. Similarly, if the team isn't aware of the milestone and the value behind it, they are unlikely to deliver.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Habit, Motivated

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

  H. F. Ellis

  Real, Squares, Triangles

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• The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Secret, World

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• For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

  John Podhoretz

  Thinking, Example, Republican

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• In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.

  Rumi Neely

  Dream, Fashion, Would Be

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My eyes are bright, my hair has come loose from its ribbon, and Stella's scarf is waving around my neck. But that's not what I see when I look at the picture. I see three unlikely friends holding hands. And Ryan, Kenny, and Melanie are standing behind us, rapt. And in the sky above us, I see a miracle.

  Wendy Mass

  Eye, Hair, Hands

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• Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

  Jodi Picoult

  Awards, Lawyer, Notorious

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• You're the queen, and it's the queen's house, and whatever Brigan may accomplish, he's highly unlikely ever to be queen.

  Kristin Cashore

  Queens, House, May

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.235, Penguin

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• In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, People, Trying

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Anansi Boys”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Russia, Sanctions

  Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, People, Half

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• Sometimes the newly Marked go into shock. The good news is, if this happens to you, you are unlikely to notice, because you will be in shock.

  Cassandra Clare

  News, Sometimes, Shock

  Cassandra Clare, Joshua Lewis (2013). “The Shadowhunter's Codex”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

  Daniel Handler

  Relationship, Stars, Fall

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• People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Trying

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Unlikely things are often true . . .

  Sheridan Hay

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.155, Anchor

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• No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

  G. H. Hardy

  Years, Numbers, Purpose

  G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Successful, Opposites, Doe

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• Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

  Stephen Colbert

  Horse, Dark, Black

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• As long as the peace-makers are armed with assault rifles, it's highly unlikely we'll ever have peace.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Long, Rifles, Makers

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• We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.

  Gordon Stein

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• You can never be absolutely certain that anything doesn't exist. But you can show that it's unlikely.

  Richard Dawkins

  Certain, Shows

  The Hugh Hewitt Show, www.hughhewitt.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Dancer, Competition

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• It is unlikely that someone could proclaim "truths" that are counter to physical laws for very long (for example, that it is healthy for children to run around in bathing suits in winter and in fur coats in summer) without appearing ridiculous. But it is perfectly normal to speak of the necessity of striking and humiliating children and robbing them of their autonomy, at the same time using such high-sounding words as chastising, upbringing, and guiding onto the right path.

  Alice Miller

  Summer, Running, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.16, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

  Sallust

  Kings, Believe, Punishment

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• Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Persecution

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