Over It Quotes - Page 13

• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished.  It's over.  It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

  Sparky Anderson

  Motivational, Sports, Winning

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

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• Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

  Deborah Copaken

  Moving, Past, Age

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• I'm not interested in
  who suffered the most.
  I'm interested in
  people getting over it.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  People, Oppression, Not Interested

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

  Rob Zombie

  New Experiences, Matter, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Tired, Thinking, Reality

  "Michael J. Fox Talks the Michael J. Fox Show, How Much the Show Draws From Real Life, Parkinson’s Humor, Has He Seen Mtv’s Teen Wolf, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 29, 2013.

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• The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

  Larry Laudan

  Science, Ideas, Choices

  Larry Laudan (1978). “Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth”, p.109, Univ of California Press

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• Jeet Kune Do: it's just a name; don't fuss over it. There's no such thing as a style if you understand the roots of combat.

  Bruce Lee

  Names, Roots, Style

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• President Bush announced that the war in Iraq has been won. It's all over, it's been won. I believe this would be Bush's first uncontested victory.

  David Letterman

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

  James Salter

  Writing, Opportunity, Joy

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• It's time to tear up the canvas and start over. It's time for the overhaul of humanity.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Starting Over, Humanity

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• It gets laughed at because it is a small town, I know, but nevertheless it is a place where great men may be born any day, for fair winds and foul blow right on over it without distinction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Blow, Men, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.36, Xist Publishing

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• The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Summer, Running, Fashion

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter I, Section 5,

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• I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

  Claudia Kennedy

  Women, Thinking, Lines

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• A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stars, Children, Two

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• If the users don't control the program, the program controls the users. With proprietary software, there is always some entity, the "owner" of the program, that controls the program and through it, exercises power over its users. A nonfree program is a yoke, an instrument of unjust power.

  Richard Stallman

  Exercise, Yoke, Unjust

  "Free Software Is Even More Important Now" by Richard Stallman, www.gnu.org. September 2013.

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• The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Regret, Past, Men

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.

  Harriet Hanson Robinson

  Business, Organization, Soul And Body

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• If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world orders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Home, Nursing

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• What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.

  P. D. James

  Grief, Terrible

  P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Pain, Memories, Acceptance

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• Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

  Arthur Helps

  Atmosphere, Littles, Toil

  Sir Arthur Helps (1853). “Fruits of leisure: Essays written in the intervals of business”, p.25

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• At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

  Grace Hopper

  Believe, Boss, Steps

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• There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only "unchangeable" because you believe that they are.

  Esther Hicks

  Believe, Painting, Environment

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• All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

  William Morley Punshon

  Men, Double Minded, Tides

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