Third Place Quotes

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Ayrton Senna

Winning, Second Chance, Race

67 Copy quote
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

John Entwistle

Book, Writing, Importance

18 Copy quote
Customers don't always know what they want. The decline in coffee-drinking was due to the fact that most of the coffee people bought was stale and they weren't enjoying it. Once they tasted ours and experienced what we call "the third place" ... a gathering place between home and work where they were treated with respect.. they found we were filling a need they didn't know they had.

Howard Schultz

Educational, Drinking, Coffee

"Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

17 Copy quote

Show source
My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

Soren Kierkegaard

Daughter, Fall, Mean

Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

16 Copy quote

Show source
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.

James O. Fraser

Christian, Teacher, Prayer

"Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 269), 1998.

59 Copy quote

Show source
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

Robert A. Heinlein

Fighting, Religion, Strange

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

13 Copy quote

Show source
From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

Janet Frame

Memories, Darkness Within, Light

Janet Frame (1998). “The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

16 Copy quote

Show source
I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

Eric Weiner

Home, Thinking, Should Have

"How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

4 Copy quote

Show source
In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.

Sergio Garcia

Years, Play, Needs

"Masters 2012: the final day - as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 08, 2012.

13 Copy quote

Show source
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Children, America

The Great Society, delivered 22 May 1964, Ann Arbor, MI

8 Copy quote

Show source
I now hope the Arsenal fans can get on with their lives and forget me, they should celebrate their third-place achievement and I will focus on winning titles.

Samir Nasri

Winning, Focus, Achievement

8 Copy quote
If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.

Alvin Martin

Football, Might, Thirds

4 Copy quote
I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.

Arthur Godfrey

Song, Years, Two

9 Copy quote
Howard Dean came in a disappointing third place. Afterwards Dean said 'Iowa is behind me and now I look forward to screaming at voters in New Hampshire.'

Conan O'Brien

Iowa, Looks, Voters

4 Copy quote
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

Aristotle

War, Exercise, Men

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

7 Copy quote

Show source
When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

Howard Schultz

Coffee, Home, Italian

"Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

10 Copy quote

Show source
But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.

Bode Miller

Sports, Winning, Thinking

7 Copy quote
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

Ramakrishna

Christian, Lakes, Names

154 Copy quote
And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car.

Murray Walker

Funny, Motor Racing, Car

7 Copy quote
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

Paul Krugman

Philosophy, War, Cutting

4 Copy quote
If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

Buzz Aldrin

Eye, Moon, Russia

"We must aim for Mars, says moonwalker". Interview with James M. Clash, www.smh.com.au. May 24, 2013.

7 Copy quote

Show source