Spurs Quotes - Page 10

• Mistakes happen. Not every one of my suspensions was purposeful or intentional. A lot of that stuff happens spur of the moment in the middle of a game. I think I can bring that to the table. Sometimes emotions get the best of you. Things happen.

  Chris Pronger

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You learn new song until you're comfortable with it to where you can record it blindfolded, but then when it comes out on the record, you forget about those little nuances and those little things that you changed during the recording process. It's those spur-of-the-moment things you do that makes it an entirely new beast that you then again have to relearn.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Records, Spur Of The Moment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.

  Leland Stanford

  Would Be, Reason, Employers

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• Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Bravery

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• Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we are trapped in error, that we have allowed ourselves to be taken in by individuals, by objects, have dreamt up an affinity with them which immediately vanishes before our waking eye; and yet we cannot tear ourselves away, held fast by some power that seems incomprehensible to us. Sometimes, however, we become fully aware and realize that error as well as truth can move and spur us on to action.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Moving, Taken

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• Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

  Heather Mitts

  Running, Bulls, Spur Of The Moment

  Source: soccerlens.com

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• Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

  Robert W. Sarnoff

  Hands, Feet, Advertising

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, People, Soul

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• I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Stars, Winning

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• I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Encouragement, Jobs, People

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

  Carol Bellamy

  Vision, World, Lessons

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• Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hard Work, May, Work Harder

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• All I know about 1970s New York City is that it's where I grew up, and you always have an umbilical connection to the time and place of your growing up. It was cheap, didn't have too many people in it, you could go to the movies or whatever on the spur of the moment, you could get by without working too much and especially without involving yourself in the corporate world.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Growing Up, Cities

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Urban Planning

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

  Boris Johnson

  Stress, Believe, Envy

  "Boris Johnson says 'greed is good' in speech to honour Margaret Thatcher". www.scmp.com. November 28, 2013.

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• Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Unity, Mind, Doe

  Charles Caleb Colton (1825). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• Art needs no spur beyond itself.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Needs

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• Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights, fools the defense of forgetfulness, and builds a collection of ideas and reflections that can spur further insights even years later.

  Roger N. Walsh

  Inspirational, Writing, Reflection

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• Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night - even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you've met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name.

  William Redington Hewlett

  Night, Keys, Gestation Period

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• Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their destruction, and when the way is stony and difficult, they know no better expedient than to overturn the cart and gallop madly away.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Life, Horse, Smart

  Selma Lagerlöf (2012). “Gösta Berling's Saga”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone thought that the Spurs would run through us and everyone is talking about the Spurs vs. the Suns in the conference finals. This team has a lot of heart and a lot of pride.

  Marcus Camby

  Basketball, Running, Team

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• My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Men, Mustache, Finest

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• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

  Francis Quarles

  Lust, Vices, Affection

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

  John Milton

  Spirit, Fame, Shears

  "Lycidas" l. 70 (1638). A 1619 play thought to be written by John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt act 1, sc. 1, refers to "the desire of glory (That last infirmity of noble minds)." That play was lost and not rediscovered until 1883, so Milton's parallel words were coincidental.

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• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mad, Mind, Normal

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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