"Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss."

-- Pat Riley

#Basketball Quotes #Motivational Sports Quotes #Loss Quotes

“...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.”
“One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.”
“I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.”

Source : Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.
“To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.”
“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is completed, you lay it down. As it is, I would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will find this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy.”
“I'm not bound to be in aviation at all. I'm here only because I love the sky and flying more than anything else on earth. Of course there's danger; but a certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life. I don't believe in taking foolish chances' but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.”

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