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“A near win shifts our view of the landscape. It can turn future goals, which we tend to envision at a distance, into more proximate events. We consider temporal distance as we do spatial distance. (Visualize a great day tomorrow and we see it with granular, practical clarity. But picture what a great day in the future might be like, not tomorrow but fifty years from now, and the image will be hazier.)”

Years Might Motivational Turns Winning Goal Views Events Tomorrow Distance Practicals Clarity Landscape Fifty Great Day Spatial Future Goals

Book:The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

Source: The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

“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

“It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.”

Men Way May Littles Young Turns Winning Ruins Young Man Little Things Few Words

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.”

Trying Success Turns Winning Attention Careers Fields Buddhism Approach Perfection Organization Playing Fields Business Organization

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.”

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.”

Turns Winning Simple Effort Feminism Concepts Dresses Remains Despite Range Gargoyles

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over. When a culture's dominant trend is geared to irrationality, the thugs win over the appeasers. When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.”

Believe Turns Opportunity Winning Cooperation Persist Nascar

Author:Charles Duhigg

“The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.”

May Facts Helping Turns Winning Directors Thrilling Facts Of Life

Author:Lynda Obst

“We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.”

“We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.”

Needs Feels Wells War Turns Winning Force Enemy Conditions Republican Democrat Congress Iran Allies Syria Formidable Can't Win

Author:Jesse Jackson