#term

I didn't like how my NBA career ended because I wanted to go out on my own terms. But nobody tried to believe in me, that I could go back and play. I can still play at 39. ↗

— Tim Hardaway

#because #believe #career #could #ended

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#count #cynic #determines #done #idealist

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#ago #backwards #becoming #completely #fell

The determination to win is the better part of winning. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#determination #part #win #winning

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious! ↗

— Halle Berry

#baby #ever #glorious #having #having a baby

He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#business #constituency #corporation #customers #economic

I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. ↗

— Sally Ride

#better #career #i #interested #knew

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #buildings #done #excluded #i

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#determines #economic #economic power #governments #political

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#comparing #concrete #connections #could #different