"You'll find as you go through life that great depth and smoldering sensuality don't always win."
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"What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things"
"As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment."
"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."
"In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose."
"To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred"
"You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying."
"Those that say it is the taking part and not the winning that is important are, for me, wrong. It is the other way round."
"You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies."
"It's too easy when you're not winning to look for excuses and point at others for reasons. You ca say 'Oh well, it's this guys fault or they don't do this well', or you can say 'I've got to play better and contribute more'. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games."
"The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen."
"My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'"
"You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind."
"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back"
"To succeed takes more than the desire to win. It also takes the acceptance that we could fail."
"Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win."
"I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning."
"Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others."
"The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars."
"Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph."