A Quotes
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“A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. A coach helps you measure your performance against your strengths instead of against someone else's. A coach will know what you are capable of and will push you to your limit.”
“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.”
“A good collaboration I think it's really, truly a vibe thing. The people who are most excited about collaborations are people in the business, people who are thinking, "This is going to be great press," or, "This is going to expose you to all these people you haven't reached before." I prefer not to think like that. I'm more, if you meet the person, you like the person, you've talked to them, you feel connected, you feel like there's a creative exchange, then it kind of happens by itself. I'm open to it, but it has to feel right. If it feels forced, then I'm fearful of doing it.”
“A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.”
“A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.”
“A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.”
“A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.”
“A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.”
Source: Ender’s Game
“A good communist,” the man had said, “does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done.” Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality.”
Source: Slash and Burn
“A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”
Source: What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
“A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.”
“A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.”
“A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.”
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules.”
Source: High Fidelity
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.”
“A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.”
Source: The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”
“A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.”
“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”
“A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied”
“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”
Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance
“A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'”
“A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”
“A good conductor ought to be a good chauffeur; the qualities that make the one also make the other. They are concentration, an incessant control of attention, and presence of mind; the conductor only has to add a little sense of music.”
“A good conscience and a good confidence go together.”
Source: Heaven On Earth
“A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.”
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“A good conscience is a continual feast.”
Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England
“A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.”
“A good conscience is an epitome of good life and a true standard of living”
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Source: David Balfour: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona
“A good conscience is paradise.”
“A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.”
Source: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd
“A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.”
Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots
“A good conscience will prevail a bad decision.”
“A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line.”
“A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.”
“A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.”
Source: Christmas with Holly
“A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.”
Source: Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions
“A good cook can make something amazing out of even the blandest ingredients. Still, you don't want to eat the exact same dish every day.”
“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”
Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…
“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
“A good cook is not necessarily a good woman with an even temper. Some allowance should be made for artistic temperament.”
“A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
“A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”
“A good counter needs no calculator.”
Source: A translation of Lao Tzu's Tao te ching and Wang Pi's commentary
“A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.”
“A good country song taps into strong undercurrents of family, faith, and patriotism.”
“A good cover has a distinct silhouette”
Source: The J.C. Leyendecker collection: American illustrators poster book