Isms Quotes - Page 2

• I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

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• How can a you hit and think at the same time?

  Yogi Berra

  Thinking, Yankees Baseball

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• It gets late early out there.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Work

  Quoted in Sporting News, 7 Aug. 1971. Berra says in The Yogi Book (1998) that he was referring here to the difficulty of playing left field in Yankee Stadium in late autumn when "the shadows would creep up on you and you had a tough time seeing the ball off the bat."

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• The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Beaten

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, Bills

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  If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

  Yogi Berra

  Success, Regret, Work

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.85, Workman Publishing

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• All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

  Jean Helion

  Order, Upset, Doe

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• How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Names

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

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• It was hard to have a conversation with anyone, there were so many people talking.

  Yogi Berra

  Talking, People, Conversation

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• 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

  Yogi Berra

  Balls, Holes, Miscellaneous

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• What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Time, Mean

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?". Book by Yogi Berra, 2001.

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• The game is not over until it is.

  Dwight Yorke

  Football, Games

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• Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

  Paul Krassner

  Racism, Sexism, Openness

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Party

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• Political parties often take advantage of denial and fear in a moment of change. This is a well understood phenomenon that often leads to scapegoat-ism: blaming outsiders, such as immigrants, or racial and religious minorities. The phenomenon is behind Brexit and the violence in the political cycles in the US and EU.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  Religious, Party, Political

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Future, Yankees

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

  Yogi Berra

  Leadership, Funny Inspirational, Reality

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

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• I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Baseball

  "Yogi Berra vs. Casey Stengel Quote War". Interview with Stan Silliman, bleacherreport.com. August 18, 2010.

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• You can observe a lot by just watching.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Photography, Yankees

  Quoted in Dick Schaap and Mort Gerberg's Joy in Mudville: The Big Book of Baseball Humor Reflections (p. 185)

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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