Quotes: winning
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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Mark Twain
American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
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A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
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A woman... always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
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All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
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An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
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Lao-Tzu
Chinese philosopher
+/- 600 BC
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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Ever notice that people never say ''It's only a game'' when they're winning?
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