No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of ...Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd like to say I'm ready to kick ass and show the guys how it's done. But I'm not here to prove anything about being a woman. I'm... here to drive a race car and try to win a race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lesson learned here is a costly one: If you stand up for your principles, follow the law, and win massively, you lose totally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival c...an ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age ...of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, ...when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches ...his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then think I thus: sith such repair, So long time war of valiant men,... Was all to win a lady fair, Shall I not learn to suffer then, And think my life well spent to be, Serving a worthier wight than she?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »