Polkinghorne Reader Quotes & Sayings

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge. — Don Meyer

Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my joy, my crown. Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands, Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring — Lisa Tawn Bergren

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat. — Sun Tzu

Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man. — Socrates

In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India. — Ram Shriram

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling. — Gail Sheehy

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them. — Michael Leunig

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire. — Ian Botham

A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others.
Consequently, the person who is most likely to get new ideas is a person of good background in the field of interest and one who is unconventional in his habits. (To be a crackpot is not, however, enough in itself.) — Isaac Asimov

When we look at what has the strongest statistical relationship to overall evaluation of your life, the first one is your career well-being, or the mission, purpose and meaning of what you're doing when you wake up each day. — Tom Rath

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him. — Voltaire