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"Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win."
"The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory."
"The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them."
"I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship."
"I was probably born a scorer, but I was made a winner. Whatever works, whatever wins championships, wins games, that's what I do."
"The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity."
"A disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself."
"Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho"
"Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it."
"You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly."
"A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening."
"Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought."
"We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win."
"I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is."
"The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win."
"In business we often find that the winning system goes almost ridiculously far in maximizing and or minimizing one or a few variables - like the discount warehouses of Costco."
"In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much from a standard path except on the upside. Well, that is a very artificial, crazy construct. That's the equivalent in investment management to the custom of binding the feet of Chinese women"
"Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love."
"The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win."
"We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it."
