As a coach, any time you get a win, it's good, because the other option is losing. Based on that, you have to walk away with your head up, understanding that when you don't play as well as you want to and win, that's a good thing.
Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes (5423 Quotes)
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
There was no finding that any of those charges were valid. From my knowledge, the two investigations were voluminous and took literally years to complete.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
There are a lot of people who are going into business who are frustrated. The prevailing wisdom is that you can't have a successful business and use it to help society as well. People think If you try to have a business that tries to give to the people, it takes away from your ability to be successful financially.
What is the unmistakable mark of a wise man It is Love, Love for all humanity.
Even in evil, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see, in suffering and temptation, proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.
We were in a war, but we had nothing to do with it. We had no way of speaking, of understanding, of knowing - nothing. It was absurd, being moved in the middle of the night with machine guns pointed at us.
Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Hoard the wealth of the Spirit. Character is wealth good conduct is wealth and spiritual wisdom is wealth.
This movie is ratifying a revolution. There's a huge pent-up demand for this film in the gay community. We've never had a film that told our story ... a sad one. And the straight community is finally ready to embrace this film. They've become more accepting, more understanding. When they see this film, they realize gay love is no different from straight love.
And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, thats horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, its nothing.
It was the Koreans' knowledge, not only of the culture, but of the language and the ways of doing business in China, that gave them the upper hand. It wasn't so much the quality of their product as it was the quality of their preparations to make the deals.
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
It is a fight over dignity and respect on the job. To our riders, we ask for your understanding.
He loved teaching, whether it was football or academically. He was always laughing and telling jokes but he still got his point across. Clayton was one of the first coaches who tried to make in fun and he saw the wisdom in that.
These new figures give us a clearer picture and a better way of understanding China's economy. Based on these figures, we can have even more confidence in our long-term fairly fast and sustained economic growth.
I'm not saying he won't manage anymore. When the day comes that Jack isn't managing, we'd love to have him as an adviser. We made that part of the understanding, that he'd be a major help in this franchise going forward. ... We all have tremendous respect for Jack and his opinions.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Every name I think of gets pooh-poohed by my partner, the young Mr. Greg Wise, ... I've sort of given up thinking of names now.
The Kyoto protocol confirmed that many countries are worried about the environment. We would like to get U. S. understanding for the agreement,
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
He who knows himself knows his Lord. This Lord is not the impersonal self, nor is it the God of dogmatic definitions, self-subsisting without relation to me, without being experienced by me. He is the he who knows himself through myself, that is, in the knowledge that I have of him, because it is the knowledge that he has of me....
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
As the blazing fire turns firewood to ashes, so does the fire of knowledge burn to ashes all reactions to material activities.
The end of man is knowledge but theres one thing he cant know. He cant know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he cant know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasnt got and which if he had it would save him.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
Then my heart looked upon Life of Beauty and said: Thou art all knowledge; enlighten me as to the mystery of Woman.
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth,
The athletes, to my knowledge, have been tested before they left.
I think, still the view of most Democrats that it would be in our interest to avoid the vote if we can have some understanding about when and how we will consider the treaty in future months,
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
Knowledge is also the giver of wealth or rather wealth is the by-product of knowledge.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Alms are only for the poor and the needy, and the officials (appointed) over them, and those whose hearts are made to incline (to truth) and the (ransoming of) captives and those in debts and in the way of Allah and the wayfarer an ordinance from Allah and Allah is knowing, Wise.
True merit does not depend on the times or on fashion. Those who have no other advantage than courtly manners lose it when they are away from court. But good sense, knowledge, and wisdom make their possessors knowledgeable and beloved in all ages and in all times.
My understanding is that this contract has been funded for the current fiscal year, so this is legitimately before us, in my opinion. My concern about adding staff is that you're splitting the chain of command. If it's this board's position to reject this contract for the current fiscal year, then it's incumbent upon us to begin the process of adding to staff.
My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.
They're (investors) looking for the Fed to be absolutely aggressive and see the economy as slow as can be and to be measured in terms of understanding how important the consumer is at this point. And how important the stock market is to consumer confidence.
Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
This will be interesting to any student in particular who is interested in getting into international relief work and international development work. To hear and speak with people who have years of experience in these areas will give anyone an understanding of what it takes to get into this field.