Best Things Quotes - Page 27

• We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

  Melody Beattie

  Strong, Mistake, Believe

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• What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

  Bill Belichick

  Basketball, Team, Nba

  "An Open Letter to White NFL Players" by Rae Witte, www.complex.com. October 10, 2016.

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• "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.

  T. H. White

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Book of Merlyn". Book by T. H. White, 1977.

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• The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

  Anthony Minghella

  Writing, Boss, Slave

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

  Busta Rhymes

  Cheer, Winning, Awards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my mother… It was my father… It was my play thing. It was my toy. It was the best thing in my life.

  Jeff Buckley

  Mother, Father, Play

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• The best things can't be told.

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Intercultural

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• My friend Heinrich Zimmer of years ago used to say, 'The best things can't be told,' because they transcend thought. 'The second best are misunderstood,' because those are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which can't be thought about, and one gets stuck in the thoughts. 'The third best are what we talk about.'

  Heinrich Zimmer

  Years, Misunderstood, Second Best

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• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beauty, Memories, Exercise

  Giorgio Vasari (1907). “Vasari on technique: being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects”

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• If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Cameras, Photographer

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.30, New Riders

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• And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me

  Drew Brees

  Funny, Example, Looks

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• The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

  John Elway

  Sports, Football, Running

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• The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

  Knute Rockne

  Football, Team, Winning

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• You're as good as the best thing you've ever done.

  Billy Wilder

  Done

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• Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

  Manuel Rivas

  Reading, Writing, Happens

  Manuel Rivas (2010). “Books Burn Badly”, p.291, Random House

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• I’m not a prophet. I’m a destiny-changer. It’s all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you’ve got the power.

  Sun Ra

  Destiny, Prophet, Things To Do

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• Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.

  Mac Miller

  Cuz, Enjoy

  Song: Senior Skip Day, Album: K.I.D.S.

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• I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

  Roger Waters

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into not just their personalities but the hunger that unites and drives their obsessions. She writes elegantly, and makes you think, and most important manages to hang onto her skepticism in the midst of her own collecting quest.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. … Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

  Isocrates

  Heart, Honor, Done

  Isocrates (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Isocrates (Illustrated)”, p.14, Delphi Classics

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• In the democratic way of life it is not the best things in life are free, but rather the best things in life are worth working for!

  Ruth M. Leverton

  Work, Things In Life, Way

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• Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

  William Saroyan

  Love, Moving, Simple

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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