Caliber Quotes

• Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Jobs, Knowing

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• A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Wine, Mind

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• The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Knowing, Way

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Apr 16, 2016

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• A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.

  Marvin Bower

  People, Principles, Boots

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Motivational, Vanity, People

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• You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

  Roy Romer

  School, Colorado, Students

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• The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

  Chris LeDoux

  Bulls, Program, Breeding

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• I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.

  Morris Chestnut

  Independent, People, Chance

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

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• You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more.

  Anne Archer

  Writing, Practice, Musician

  "Anne Archer and Michelle Danner Come Together For A New Play". Interview with Jamie Painter Young, www.backstage.com. October 12, 2011.

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• People of small calibre are always carping. How affected so-and-so is! Don't you think he is silly? He was certainly quite mistaken about this or that. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or their prowess or good breeding.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  People, Bent, Prowess

  "Opinions of Oliver Allston".

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• I've been to a number of places and seen for myself the caliber of people who are in the Navy today - in all the services for that matter. This is an altogether different bunch. These people of today are really bright, young, good people.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Numbers, People, Navy

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• That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth, and that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

  Julian Assange

  Mean, Organization, Enormous Quantities

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients

  Carl Levin

  Mistake, Damage Is Done, Medical

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• Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber rounds. We shoot a helicopter out of the sky. That's the only fight I'm in.

  Anthony Anderson

  Fighting, Sky, Firefighter

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

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• Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

  Kevin Smith

  Long, Praying, Long Time

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• In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

  Thomas Keller

  Fundraising, Chef, Building

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• Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

  Jim Butcher

  Stones, Bullets, Sticks

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• The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

  Stuart Symington

  Believe, Gun, Experts

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• I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Blessed, Thinking, People

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• The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

  John Thorn

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, Thinking, Nervous

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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• It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.

  David Sarnoff

  Drama, Artist, Television

  David Sarnoff (1948). “Pioneering in television, prophecy and fulfillment: excerpts from speeches and statements”

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• A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Men, People, Democracy

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• The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

  Christina Aguilera

  Successful, People, Energy

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• To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

  Arne Duncan

  Teacher, Teaching, Salary

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