Spurs quotes
117 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts."
"I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases."
"I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie."
"You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught."
"Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!"
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"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
"Avarice, the spur of industry."
"Art needs no spur beyond itself."
"Hunger's a great spur."
"Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better."
"True understanding is the spur of genius"
"Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint."
"The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]"
"Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood."
"When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect."
"[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize."
"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls."
"If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse."
"Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work."
"Necessity is often the spur to genius."
"John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur."
"If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru."
"The love of fame puts spurs to the mind"
"Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]"
"Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight."
