Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up. Dan OBrien
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.Martin Luther King
Talk radio around Boston is brutal, and I think that's part of what goes on is that people as they're driving to and from work start listening to these jerks, and I say jerks, because I don't think they know what they're talking about and they're just serving some things up as controversy so they can sell the show to sponsors. Tom Heinsohn
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don't have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. John Green
That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore. Shaquille ONeal
That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics. Fran Tarkenton
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds. James Lee Burke
That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. Max Brooks
That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it. Ray Nitschke
The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season. Jason Kidd
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. Harlan Coben
The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity. Lenny Wilkens
The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile. Robert Cormier
The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification. Ron Chernow
The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to. Judy Blume
The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad. Shaquille ONeal
The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent. Ronda Rousey
The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever. Anthony Bourdain