A Quotes
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“A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.”
“A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.”
“A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.”
“A good Athlete may not be a good Coach, likewise, a good Coach may not be a good Athlete”
“A good attacker is one who also knows how to defend himself.”
“A good attitude, a positive perspective, a smiling face, a strong laugh are all highly contagious. Why not start spreading them?”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“A good attitude comes with understanding your failures are part of the overall plan for your success.”
“A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.”
“A good author can pull you into their world, a great author can make you stay.”
Source: Twisted Secrets
“A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.”
“A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.”
Source: The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig
“A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.”
“A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.”
“A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.”
“A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.”
“A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.”
“A good bargaine is a pick-purse.
[A good bargain is a pick-purse.]”
“A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.”
“A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.”
“A good bassist determines the direction of any band.”
“A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.”
Source: Shadows in Bronze: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery
“A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.”
“A good bed can solve a lot of problems. Wars have started over bad sleep.”
Source: a three body solution: A Daringly Subversive & Juicy Tale of Love, Evolution, & Humanity's Last Hope
“A good beginning is of great importance.”
“A good beginning makes a good end.”
“A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.”
“A good Board Of Directors team is one where ideas are flowing fluidly - and where each idea is met with an initial welcome, an intellectual challenge, an expression of gratitude, a rigorous scrutiny and a readiness for action.”
“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel
“A good book can cure heartbreak.”
Source: We Were Made For Each Other!
“A good book can either uplift your spirit, expand your knowledge, teach you a good thing, motivate you to do a good deed, leave a good impact for your whole life, widen your horizons, or simply be a good companion in your good days and bad days.”
“a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )”
“A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.”
“A good book can transform souls.”
Source: The Secret of Clouds
“A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.”
“A good book delivers a great message. And while such a message should touch the reader in a good way, it must transform them in a great way.”
“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”
“A good book draws you in and makes you feel like a part of the story.”
Source: Dream to Reality
“A good book enriches life, offering a refuge for the mind and a playground for the soul.”
“A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!”
“A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.”
Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North
“A good book is a bridge: between a child and the world, between a child and their parent”
Source: Learning to Love: Teach Young Kids How to Express Love with Words and Actions (Emotions & Feelings for Ages 3–6)
“A good book is a good book, and there are a lot of different ways to approach writing or reading one.”
“A good book is a good friend. He will talk to you if you want him to talk, but will shut up if you don't want him to talk. - A library is a collection of good friends.”
“A good book is a good place to go.....
to dream!”
“A good book is a journey that never truly ends, its pages leave footprints on your soul.”
Source: Limitless: The Journey to Your Best Self: A Practical Guide to Unlocking Your True Potential and Living a Fulfilling Life
“A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!”
“A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.”
“A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.”
Source: The Anatomy of Bibliomania
“A good book is an education of the heart.”