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    Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said ''I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.



    Certainly I would hope that this victory would be one that the guys say, 'Hey look, we're never out of something,' ... We're going to keep fighting no matter what. I hope we can kind of build on that and correct the things that we did poorly.


    I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.

    You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success but only if you persist.

    If there is difference of opinion between husband and wife then household chores will become impossible to accomplish. To avoid this the relationship between husband and wife should be cordial and loving.



    I'm disappointed, very disappointed. I want to wish the entire Valley West football family the best of luck and continued success. I want to thank the school board for giving me the opportunity for the past eight years to be the head football coach.

    This is a very tough thing for me. What bothers me most is that when we started to achieve success is when we stopped the revolving door. We had stability.

    You have to understand the measurement of success sometimes comes in not where you wanted them to end up, but how far they've come. I've asked a lot of these kids to step up, and they've done that. I can't fault the kids. The majority of them wrestled as hard as they could possibly wrestle.




    We are committed to continued expense management and strategies to improve productivity in 2006. Execution in these two important areas should contribute to the achievement of our goal of improving operating margins by 50 to 150 basis points for the year.


    Spirituality is the consciousness of victory over self and of communion with the Infinite. Spirituality impels one to conquer difficulties and acquire more and more strength. To feel one's faculties expanding the soul is one of life's most sublime experiences.






    Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its golden glow, even as the glory of a noble love shines like a sort of light from a woman's face.


    Some Palestinians are wondering why it shouldn't be three months, or maybe one month or one week. They are forgetting that Rafah being in Palestinian and Egyptian hands, without an Israeli presence, is something they should be proud of as a major achievement.


    Over the past twenty years, innovative entrepreneurs have been working to build a new class of companies that strive to do good as well as doing well. The success of companies like Whole Foods has demonstrated that ideas that once seemed on the margins are now becoming mainstream -- as consumers strive to make better choices, seek to do business with companies they respect, and buy products and services that promote a more balanced and sustainable lifestyle.



    The only way to begin, change, and success is to simplify and go step by step. Don't even bother writing everything down or thinking ahead of what you have to do, for this will make things seem complicated, overwhelming and too much. Simplify and begin step by step without the process of thinking too much.

    You get out there and you play hard, but a victory lets you know in the back of your mind that all your hard work is paying off. It's early in the year, but it is nice to get a win to build the confidence.


    Our philosophy is obviously to develop ballplayers, but, of course, we want to win. The Red Sox's goal is to put guys in the right situation to succeed. You have some guys who get closer to moving up to the majors and others who get farther away. The Red Sox let us run our own ship and give you a lot of leeway as a manager. You might lose a game, but when we take a look, we see a lot of positives. There are times you win a game, but don't develop a thing.



    Fuzzy (Zoeller) tells me I should have played in the old days, with him and Tom Watson and Lee Trevino and those guys, ... They never worked out. All they cared about was winning, not the money. Trophies, that's all that has ever mattered to me, I never cared about the money.

    The last couple years for them to be in the position they've been in winning wise, it's been tough on me being injured, ... You want to be part of that. At the same time, it's a family in here and I'm still part of it. You don't have that emotional attachment, you haven't spent that time grinding it out. It's kind of like I've been the long lost relative, kind of been out of the country for a while.

    I was personally angry because President Clinton had, by his disgraceful behavior, jeopardized his administration's historic record of accomplishment, much of which grew out of the principles and programs that he and I and many others had worked on together in the new Democratic movement,

    I'm not saying it in a whiny way. I'm not saying woe is us. I'm telling our team that if we win the regular season, it's a hell of an accomplishment. Next year, we'll have all those teams at home. That won't be fair either.

    I think the organization deserves better than what they have had for six or seven or 10 years. This is an organization that has seen great, great success, and we don't want to be the ones that have allowed it to go unsuccessful for so long. With Coach Gibbs coming back, that was a step to getting back to the success. We want to win games for a man who's been good to us and very loyal to us.

    He wanted to continue as assistant manager, but we had to put the good of the club first, and to that end he took over the youth set up I felt he had all the qualities needed to make it a success.

    In this job, I always felt I could do the work for the glory of God and the good of our country, and particularly our poor. I want to continue to serve and make a difference, and St. Vincent College gives me that chance.

    I congratulate Fernando and the team on winning the title. They have done a great job over the season. I saw a mechanic who worked with me before and he was close to tears. It was moving to see him and it's nice to see how they are happy.

    Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.

    The character traits most critical to creating empowerment are Integrity habitsare congruent with values, words with deeds, expressions with feelings. Maturitycourage balanced with consideration. Abundance mentality there is plenty outthere for everybody. A person with these character traits can be genuinely happyfor the success and accomplishments of others.

    There's not a guy in our dressing room who feels down and upset. I mean, obviously, we're disappointed we didn't come out and get the win in the first game. But we have a job to do and that's to get the split (of the first two games). Get the split in their rink and go back to ours and the Fort Wayne fans will lead us to two victories.



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