Glenn Turner famous quotes

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
-- Glenn Turner

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

I met my wife [Sukhinder Kaur Gill] in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting’. And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously.
-- Glenn Turner

#Father #Years #People

In this modern day and age, we have instant coffee, instant tea - instant disbelief. That's the reason we will never become anything. It is because we will never believe in ourselves. We will always listen to the mass majority. If everybody's making fun of you and criticizing you, then you know you're on the right track. 'Cause most people ain't got it.
-- Glenn Turner

#Fun #Coffee #Believe

And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.
-- Glenn Turner

#Nuts #Tree #Balls

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.
-- Glenn Turner

#Viruses #Made #Combat

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.
-- Glenn Turner

#Opportunity #Talking #Practice

I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.
-- Glenn Turner

#Team #Games #Interesting

I think all versions of limited-overs cricket have attracted more people to the game.
-- Glenn Turner

#Thinking #Games #People

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.