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Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions. ↗

— Sunil Gavaskar

#come #comparison #comparisons #conditions #different

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#bad #bad habits #best #get #habits

I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. ↗

— James Franco

#after #during #educating #english #english major

I love it. When they stop imitating me then I'll start wondering where I'm going wrong. Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new. ↗

— Erroll Garner

#down #every #every day #going #i

Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#change #climate #climate change #conducting #every

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#baby #back #bananas #belly #carrying

Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#difficult #feel #getting #getting started #hours

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#baseball #because #christian #doing #engaged

As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen? ↗

— Lukas Foss

#empty #happen #how #i #i do

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander