Spped Quotes

I’ve always been a bit of a loner.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

I believe in hard work,

and I believe in patience and learning from mistakes.

Opportunity is missed by most people

because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Everything negative – pressure,

challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Every game is a chance to improve.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself,

or to get all the credit for doing it.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free,

I was not alone.

There were many others who felt the same way.

In this sad world of ours,

sorrow comes to all;

and to the young,

it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares.

I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Music heals the pain words can’t touch.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Innovation has nothing to do with

how many R&D dollars you have.

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Why was the amendment,

expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery,

voted down?

Plainly enough now,

the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche

for the Dred Scott decision.

I care not much for a man's religion

whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

You've got to be a bit of a pirate in this world.

If I were not a physicist,

I would probably be a musician.

I often think in music.

I live my daydreams in music.

I see my life in terms of music.

Christmas waves a magic

wand over this world,

and behold, everything is

softer and more beautiful.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Only through focus can you do world class things,

no matter how capable you are.