Band Drum Major Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately, what separates a Winner from a Loser at the Grandmaster level is the Willingness to do the Unthinkable. — Garry Kasparov

Just reaching the centre of our own galaxy would take far longer than we have existed as beings. — Bill Bryson

Consumers are realizing the benefits of in-car entertainment and navigation systems. When used properly, these products are great tools that help drivers focus on the road. Consumers need to remember to follow state laws, watch the road and use common sense when putting these and other products to work. — Gary Shapiro

Let us be merciful as well as just. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It was kind of tragic, I reflected, that we all spent our lives working but never really got good at our work, or even finished it. — Hope Jahren

It's not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sevens successively from 100 and, if you keep your focus on the task, your chatter zone goes quiet. — Daniel Goleman

And the people ... there is no end of them. I sit on that damnable iron chair and listen to them complain until my mind is numb and my ass is raw. They all want something, money or land or justice. The lies they tell ... — George R R Martin

When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive. — Ruth A. Hawkins

I was painfully shy as a child. — Lesley Nicol

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it. — Vanessa Bayer

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new. Most successful businessmen are in that role. 'No' is never perceived as the end of the line. 'No' just means picking a new avenue. — Sharon Stone

All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life. — Anne Carson

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living. — Albert Camus

The 18-minute rule isn't simply a good exercise to learn discipline. It's critical to avoid overloading your audience. Remember, constrained presentations require more creativity. — Carmine Gallo

There are days like that. Everybody you meet is a dope. You begin to look at yourself in the glass and wonder. — Raymond Chandler