#spent

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#event #figure #going #had #i

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#be careful #careful #coin #determine #how

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#labour #language #learning #relation #secret

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. ↗

— Terry Savage

#bet #confiscated #could #earnings #economy

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#adolescence #childhood #london #opposed #spent

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#gotten #i #know #number #online

Who should have spent their money on a brain implant? ↗