It is my job to help the players react better.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support – a significant problem in the software industry.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

You look at another team’s style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they’re doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

I saw 14 games in two and a half months at Churchill. It was what I really signed for. They were eyeing the championship and also playing the AFC Cup. So I am very thankful for Churchill, the coaching staff and the players.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

The status quo sucks.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

I think sim racing helps. I have improved in areas and do it whenever I need to improve. You don’t feel G-force and those things are probably the biggest things, that and the fear factor which you feel when you drive. Therefore, when I go on to the track I’m better.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Common Core is a big win for education.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.