In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand.... I don't need that anymore. I don...'t need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So of the three methods: reason, sense, or a knowing combination of both, the last seems the least like a winner, the second probl...ematic; only the first has some slim chance of succeeding through sheer perversity, which is possibly the only way to succeed at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To make ...it in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking in on our academic circles was the usual quota of P.H.T.'s, the Putting Husband Throughs, young women who with high hopes ...work for years to earn money for their husbands' doctorates. Year after year they slave on, often forced to forgo bearing children until it is too late, sacrificing pleasures and recreation for the pot of gold at the end of the gaily alluring rainbow--a doctorate pinned on a man who has renounced the amenities and comforts of life, already the victim of occupational desiccation when he gets his medal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a noble privilege is it of human reason to attain the knowledge of the supreme Being; and, from the visible works of nature, ...be enabled to infer so sublime a principle as its supreme Creator? But turn the reverse of the medal. Survey most nations and most ages. Examine the religious principles, which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded, that they are any thing but sick men's dreams: Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a being, who dignifies himself with the name of rational.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Competition can be a very intense experience and a very rewarding one, or it can be enormously destructive. External pressure, whe...ther it's exerted by a coach, a school, a ski club, or a country, is what can make it a negative thing. When they use you to satisfy their need to succeed, when they impose their value system on you, then competition isn't personally rewarding anymore.... You're either a winner or a loser.... There's no way in my mind that you can divide humanity into those two categories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »