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“A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.”

People Ifs Giving Years Actors Winning Roles Successful Five Drama Six Gains Weight Credit Oscars Sitcom

Author:Mike O'Malley

“The only way to win a power struggle is to give it up.”

Way Giving Winning Struggle Irony Power Struggle

Author:Robert Mandel

“There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.”

Giving Hard Games Winning Sleep Careers Cases Our Lives Sacrifice Hard Work Giving Up Notion Accomplish Stealing Zero Somewhere Else Zero Sum Game

Author:Maynard Webb

“Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.”

Giving Winning Relationship Beneficial Networking Cultivating Win Win Give And Take

Author:Bob Burg

“I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.”

Giving Believe Made Book Winning I Believe Ready Reader I Believe In Expecting Bores

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.”

Way Giving War America Purpose Fighting Winning Enemy Greek Application Vietnam Fighting To Win Old Greek

Author:Arthur Goldberg

“I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.”

Thinking Men Giving Winning Moral Victory One Man Moral Victory

Book:Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

Source: Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

“I enjoy every win that I have. Every win gives me satisfaction, because all the girls are competitive and the tour is so even and tough.”

Giving Girl Winning Enjoy Tough Give Me Satisfaction

Author:Anna Kournikova

“I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth”

Thinking Giving Hard Winning New York Months Birth Ten Gym Marathon Giving Birth

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.”

World Giving Trying Years Dies Winning Failing Tears Failure Honor Thousand Glory Prize Cried Thousand Years

Book:The Building of the City Beautiful

Source: The Building of the City Beautiful

“There are lots of people out there who prefer tinkering to winning - it gives them a good excuse.”

People Giving Winning Excuse Tinkering

Author:Carroll Smith

“Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.”

Ifs Giving Mind Firsts Heart War Body Passion Winning Loses Battle Objectives

Author:Greg Plitt

“I turn to someone, I'm not sure, to God I think, but I never ask for anything. I would never pray to win a title; it makes no sense. I've never understood those who pray before a match. I simply give thanks for what I have received.”

Thinking Giving Turns Asks Winning Praying Understood Thanks Titles Not Sure

Author:Mario Balotelli