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“When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.”

People Ifs Looks Winning Common Talking Eight Sweden Invigorating

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.”

Ifs Trying Different Use Hands Winning Strong Bits Goal Common Situation Impossible Team Prove Unique Picks Fingers Pursuit Teamwork Pencils Common Goal

Author:Terry Orlick

“One of the common traits of outstanding performers-coaches, athletes, managers, sales representatives, executives, and others who face a daily up/down, win/lose accounting system-is that a rejection, that is, defeat, is quickly forgotten, replaced eagerly by pursuit of a new order, client, or opponent.”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins.”

Long Lasts Winning Common Race Technology Civilization Presses Common Sense Technological Printing Printing Press

Book:Cauldron

Source: Cauldron

“There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.”

Winning Common Winner Loser

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

Men Bigs Age Winning Chance Common Half Millions Amount Fame Common Sense Exception Dozen Posterity Lottery

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The immemorial ingratitude of rulers and commonwealths is proverbial. Especially common is ingratitude to Israel - the People that has achieved so much of eternal worth, but has rarely succeeded in winning gratitude.”

People Winning Common Gratitude Eternal Israel Rulers Commonwealth Ingratitude Proverbial

Book:Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot

Source: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot