"If I'd had covered [ Brett Favre] in Atlanta, I'd presume he'd go down as another Todd Marinovich. Talent out the gills, but lacking the control and discipline to make much of himself."

-- Jeff Pearlman

#Atlanta Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Talent Quotes

“If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”
“Whatever adventure you are into, whatever you are doing, your attention should be on your spirit.”
“No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.”
“The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.”

Source : A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley
“You can teach an old dog new tricks with the right kind of doggie treats.”
“Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.”

Source : Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”
“Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.”
“A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.”

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