Hatsuyo Sakai Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I try to beat other people's achievements but on many occasions I find it's better to beat my own achievements. That can give me more satisfaction. I don't feel happy if I am comfortable. Something inside me pushes me when I get comfortable. It makes me go farther and I want to keep pushing. — Ayrton Senna

Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying. — Angela Duckworth

What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is dangerous?"
"A sparrow with a machine gun."
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Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone who would claim to have discovered the opposite. No one needs a scientist to measure whether humans are prone to knavery. The question has been answered in the history books, the newspapers, the ethnographic record, and the letters to Ann Landers. But people treat it like an open question, as if someday science might discover that it's all a bad dream and we will wake up to find that it is human nature to love one another. — Steven Pinker

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist. — Damien Rice

No volleyball play can begin without a serve, and the serve is the only technique that is totally under your control. In other endeavors, you cannot succeed without believing in yourself, and that belief is completely under your control. — Karch Kiraly

The scientific discovery appears first as the hypothesis of an analogy; and science tends to become independent of the hypothesis. — William Kingdon Clifford

I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. — Ani DiFranco

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows. — Stephen Sondheim

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up. — Lee Martin

He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake. — Monica Ali

Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity. — Honore De Balzac