The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
Failures are expected by losers, ignored by winners.
One thing that translates from college to the NFL is winners, and, I think, being a quarterback, that’s the biggest thing: being recognized, winning games.
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn’t feature.
Google’s ability to pick winners and losers in the information world is a menace. These companies have the ability to determine which media companies are successful and which ones are failures. If I adopt a business plan that doesn’t line up with Google’s, then they’re not going to reward me.
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.
On ‘Best Week Ever,’ I met a few previous ‘Idol’ winners, and they were the nicest young people you’d ever want to meet. It is a tribute to them that they emerged from ‘Idol’s’ cynicism factory seemingly without mercury poisoning of the soul.
Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.
I’ve made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.
In this life, you have three kinds of persons the winners, the losers, and the third ones, they’re the ones who don’t even know why they’re born. I’m a winner.
Everybody wants to be winners – you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can’t see it.
Last I looked – and I’m not a candidate – but last time I checked reading about the Constitution, the Electoral College has nothing to do with parties, has absolutely nothing to do with parties. It’s most states are winners take all.
I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it’s you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That’s what defines winners.
In New York, they like winners. They don’t like second place.
What’s the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don’t believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.
My next project is ‘Venus Vs,’ which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and her effort to get equal-award pay for women at Wimbledon. Most people don’t realize that Venus fought for years to make sure women and men winners of that tennis championship received the same amount in award money.
The National is about however long it takes to run that race – eight minutes of fame – but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn’t swap any of my winners for the National.
Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.
Normally when you look at the Ballon d’Or winners, they’re either attacking midfield players or centre-forwards. They are goalscorers and eye-catching players.
History is not just written by the winners; it’s written about them.
The women at all levels of the entertainment industry – from interns to Oscar winners – who kept quiet to protect their careers should be a lesson to every CEO and HR department.
Team GB’s success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester’s velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.
In the quest for more equality in a society, when we think that men aren’t part of the solution, we’re truly wrong… We’re all winners when we unite for more equality.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.
Politics isn’t a reality show or a gong show. It’s not show business for ugly people. It’s the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
Everyone kept saying, ‘The terrorists didn’t win. You won! We won! You survived!’ That’s just weird to me. Nobody wins in these situations. I don’t see winners and losers in tragic events.
See, winners embrace hard work.
Look at ‘American Idol,’ which I don’t look at. Those winners haven’t become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can’t aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.
As with any season, there are plenty of people who would have made fabulous winners, and I just hope to honor the legacy of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ and I hope to continue to make my fans, my friends, my family, and my sisters from my season proud.
I love what I am doing on ‘SportsNation’ and to now have the opportunity to do even more on ‘Winners Bracket’ as part of ESPN Sports Saturday on ABC is the perfect situation.
The people I coach are very successful people, so it’s very hard for winners to not constantly win. Even if it’s trivial and not worth it, we still want to win – because we love winning. It’s a very deep habit.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.
There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time… That’s the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it’s not going anywhere.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal – winning – and there are indeed winners and losers.
Winners don’t believe in fate like others do. They simply cannot accept defeat.
Every time a medal is won on the national or international platform, our country really enjoys winners but we don’t appreciate the effort that goes into creating winners.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
Preachers are not called to be politicians but soul winners.
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
I try not to repeat myself too often, but it’s a gamble. ‘Fred Claus’ had three Oscar winners in it. No business – it was a bad movie.
The winners at the Olympics step up, bursting with pride, because everything that they have worked for and all their dedication is rewarded in a climax that I, and most golfers, will never experience.
The only thing we know for sure about superiority in sports in the United States of America in the 20th century is that Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics teams he led stand alone as the ultimate winners.
What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
I was asked, ‘Why do you think the male ‘X Factor’ winners haven’t been successful in the past?’ And I said, ‘Because obviously the body of work that they’ve brought out wasn’t good enough,’ and that was it.
Don’t worry that you can’t seem to come up with sure billion dollar winners at first. Just do projects for yourself for fun. You’ll get better and better.
