"My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance."

-- Lance Armstrong

#Attitude Quotes #Winning Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“It's just a matter of time before we have a cyber Pearl Harbor.”
“The usual struggle squeezing my bloated CitroÃ«n, absurdly named â€œPicasso,â€ in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking a year over this and doing it on a donkey. Eventually found the road to the church of the Madonna of San Biagio, a foursquare temple sitting all alone in the plain. Sangallo's fantasy of the Doric order in honey-colored sandstone, with shell-niches, rosettes, oculi under heavy entablatures. Any one ignorant of geometry scarcely dare enter this shrine to number, measure, and weight. So clean and crisp I could eat it for breakfast.”
“Out of the millions and millions of people that inhabit this planet, he is one of the tiny few I can never have.”

Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.202, Simon and Schuster
“The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.”
“Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.”
“I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it's equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.”

Source : "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.
“Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.”
“I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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