I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound. It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.
The transgender bathroom thing – it’s just so obvious that people are scared of what they don’t understand. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.’
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
That’s the funny thing about time. It is only in looking back that it’s easy to connect the dots. To see exactly why everything needed to happen the way that it did.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.
Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.
I’m a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, ‘Enjoy life. Celebrate life.’
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Success is all about persistence and doing the right thing for the long term.
I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
Even on casual days, wear at least one thing that makes you happy.
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.
It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Just try to do the right thing, and that’s immediate karma: ‘I feel good about myself.’
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.
Step by step and the thing is done.
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit… a reputation, character.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Islam is a religion. It is not an ideology. For a Muslim, there is no such thing as to be against modernity. Why should a Muslim not be a modern person? I, as a Muslim, fulfill all the requirements of my religion, and I live in a democratic, social state.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.
The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
I am a fairly mongrelized person – you know I’ve been a migrant my whole life, and it’s hard to think of myself as any pure one thing. And so I take it, I guess, very personally – this notion that migrants are bad and that mixing is bad and that people from other places are bad.
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States – alcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
