Quotes
Quotes about Winning
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility,--
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble;
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying.
If all the world be worth the winning,
Think, oh think it worth enjoying:
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the gods provide thee.
She whom I love is hard to catch and conquer,
Hard, but O the glory of the winning were she won.
God made his mind up, right from the beginning, that some were damned, some saved, and strictly what you did with life, saintly by choice or sinning, mattered to God not one benighted jot. You prosper? That probably means you're winning. You're losing, lost - the sudden voices shout it. You're lost, and nothing can be done about it.
There arose those winning life between two wars, born out of one, doomed food for the other
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a babyâthere isn't any comparison.
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
Business is a lot like a game of tennis â those who serve well usually end up winning
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the TdF and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son and a father. -Lance Armstrong.
EPIPHANY The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.
Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Even the most traditional theologian will be anxious to point out that the classical images which have been used, with more or less success, to depict different aspects of the Redemptionâthe winning of a battle, the liberation of captives, the payment of a fine or debt, the curing of a disease, and so onâare not to be interpreted literally, any more than, when we say that the eternal Word "came down from Heaven", we are describing a process of spatial translation. For here we are dealing with processes and events which, by the nature of the case, cannot be precisely described in everyday language... The matter is quite different with such a statement as that Christ was born of the Virgin Mary; for, whatever aspects of the Incarnation outstrip the descriptive power of ordinary language, this at least is plainly statable in it. It means that Jesus was conceived in his mother's womb without previous sexual intercourse on her part with any male human being, and this is a straightforward statement which is either true or false. To say that the birth... of Jesus Christ cannot simply be thought of as a biological event, and to add that this is [not] what the Virgin Birth means, is a plain misuse of language; and no amount of talk about the appealing character of the "Christmas myth" can validly gloss this over.
Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 The Church has always found it easier to fulfill her priestly than her prophetic role. The temptation to institutionalism is always with us, and who will profess himself guiltless? We reduce Christianity to the service of an institution, the Church, for this enables us to be active in what is fondly called "the work of the Lord," while at the same time failing to grapple with the fundamental problem for all Christians, that of winning our generation for Christ. In our little circle of like-minded people we condemn outsiders because they do not come in. Perhaps we even make half-hearted attempts to get them to come in. And then we snuggle down again in the warmth of our fellowship, comforted that we have done all that might reasonably be expected of men in our situation. Fortified with this consolation we concentrate on keeping the institution, the Church, running as it should.
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it's the competition.
Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. â¢Jeff Raskin Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. â¢Anonymous The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." â¢Leon Lanthier Computers are useless - they only give you answers. â¢Pablo Picasso "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. â¢J. H. Goldfuss No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. â¢John Ruskin All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. â¢Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. â¢James Magary Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. â¢E W Dijkstra Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. â¢Popular Mechanics, 1949 Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. â¢Andy Rooney Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. â¢Edward Shepherd Mead A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. â¢John Gall There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. â¢Bill Gates If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. â¢Bill Gates Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. â¢MG Siriam Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. â¢Tom Fasulo Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. â¢William Gibson URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. â¢Chris Clark My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. â¢Penn Jillett We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. â¢Robert Wilensky It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. â¢Denise Caruso Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! â¢Homer Simpson Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. â¢Scott Adams I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. â¢Isaac Asimov Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. â¢Rich Cook If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. â¢Robert Cringely I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. â¢Steve Jobs The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. â¢Porterfield People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. â¢Anonymous Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. â¢Anonymous But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. â¢Bruce Leverett Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Woe to the youth whom Fancy gains, Winning from Reason's hand the reins, Pity and woe! for such a mind Is soft contemplative, and kind.
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
