''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating. |
Ann Coulter (1961-) |
(Momentum) manifests itself by winning. Part of it helps your psyche ? you feel more confident coming off a win than a loss. ... Maybe you don't panic when things aren't going as well as they should because, 'OK, we've had success.' It's a big part of anything in athletics, no doubt. |
(The beam) is the make or break event. If you don't stay on, nobody's going anywhere. We've really been focusing on whatever it takes to stay on the beam. They were really big beam scores. We have to be realistic when we go to sectionals; I don't know if we'll see those scores again. |
[? An early Christmas wish from Marisa Tompkins of Tega Cay, S.C.:] Why don't we sacrifice our own gift-giving during the holidays and adopt a hurricane victim family? ... Wouldn't our blessings do more good if invested in the future of the people of Louisiana. ... Where do we start? |
[A shortage of skilled workers] can stop growth or even shrink a company. Especially as we move out of a product-based economy and into a knowledge-based one, finding people who have the skills to do what your company does is about the only competitive advantage you can have anymore. |
[But it has also led to some startlingly wide inequalities: environmental damage, disparities of education, poor working conditions, significant differences in wages,] factors that are part of the reason for the expected protests outside, ... We must work to right these inequalities. |
[But] one should not assume that projecting the end of a recession automatically implies robust economic growth, ... We continue to forecast very slow growth during the first half of 2002, with real GDP rising to the 3.0 to 3.5 percent growth range during the second half of the year. |
[Even with the changes in the market, many economists remain optimistic that the housing market is not a bubble waiting to burst.] We may see a flattening of the increase, but not much of a drop, ... The fundamentals remain strong: Employment is robust, and interest rates remain low. |
[Hamilton said federal officials should have known early on that a massive federal response, including U.S. troops and helicopters, would be required to deal with Katrina.] The National Guard doesn't have the helicopters you need, ... These decisions were delayed much, much too long. |
[He said that once consumers are struck in a quagmire they would find it extremely difficult to get out of it.] We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy. |
[Improvements from better food to more than a dozen private conference rooms outfitted with telephones and fax machines are designed to keep customers in the building] a few more hours buying horses, ... Buying horses makes them happy. That makes us happy. That makes everybody happy. |
[In another one of his banned books,] Rejecting Lies, ... Under the pressure of ideology and the temptation of market economy, intellectuals have not become the society's pillar in the midst of the breakdown of moral values but have become the most thoroughly corrupt bunch of people. |
[In short, it's the good economy, stupid.] There is widespread perception that other forces have contributed to the economic recovery, whether it's the New Economy or [Federal Reserve Chairman Alan] Greenspan, ... The challenge for Gore is to make sure his administration gets credit. |
[It's a little bit like using a pinch-hitter or DH, but only superficially. The shooter isn't a specialty team of one.] A .300 hitter is considered tremendously successful, ... There's a lot more failure than there is success. In the shootout, at some point, there has to be a winner. |