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| There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. | Pat Riley | 1945, American Basketball Coach |
| A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. | Pat Riley | 1945, American Basketball Coach |
| From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer.'' I can't say it myself. | Patrick Campbell | 1913-1980, Irish Humorist |
| I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. | Patrick White | |
| Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience. | Paul Boese | |
| Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. | Paul De Man | 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic |
| Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being. | Paul De Man | 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic |
| Literature... is condemned (or privileged) to be forever the most rigorous and, consequently, the most reliable of terms in which man names and transforms himself. | Paul De Man | 1919-1983, Belgian-born American Literary Critic |
| Help people become more motivated by guiding them to the source of their own power. | Paul G. Thomas | |
| For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower. | Paul Goodman | 1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic |
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| Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. | Paul Tillich | 1886-1965, German Protestant Theologian, Philosopher |
| Read good, big important things. | Peggy Noonan | 1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter |
| Read good, big important things. | Peggy Noonan | 1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter |
| Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. | Peggy Noonan | 1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter |
| Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top up s. | Peter Davies | |
| We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. | Peter F. Drucker | 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author |
| You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. | Peter Kump | Books: Classics |
| I had always imagined that Clich- was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford. | Philip Guedalla | 1889-1944, British Writer |
| Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here. | Philip Massinger | 1583-1640, British Dramatist |
| All learning has an emotional base. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
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| Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. | Plato | BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher |
| A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. | Plaut | |
| If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. | Prince of Wales Charles | 1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip |
| Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use. | Professor Blackie | |
| A wicked book cannot repent. | Proverb | |
| We learn by teaching. | Proverb | |
| The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains. | Proverb | |
| Don't spur a willing horse. | Proverb | |
| Patience when teased is often transformed into rage. | Proverb | |
| Rome was not built in a day. | Proverb | |
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| Patience, money and time bring all things to past. | Proverb | |
| Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. | Publilius Syrus | 1st Century BC, Roman Writer |
| Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is. | Publilius Syrus | 1st Century BC, Roman Writer |
| You can never learn less, you can only learn more. | R. Buckminster Fuller | 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher |
| He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. | Rabbi Hillel | 30B.C - 9 A.D., Jewish Rabbi, Teacher |
| The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.'' | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Language is the archives of history. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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