"The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity."

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Source : Lewis Grizzard (1990). “Gettin' it on: a down-home treasury”, BBS Publishing Corporation

Lewis Grizzard

#Motivational Quotes #Success Quotes #Football Quotes

“One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.”

Source : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”

Source : Third book of Criticism
“Let the little fairy in you fly!”
“Costis followed, telling himself that it wasn't true that he and the king and even the stone under their feet were nothing but tissue, transparently thin, and that for a moment, the only real thing in the universe had been there on the parapet with the king.”
“During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.”
“I'm excited and terrified to write something new.”
“There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?”
“When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.”

Source : Robert E. Quinn (1996). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, Jossey-Bass

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