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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
I hope maybe one day I can be like Wayne Rooney. Maybe then some young players will be proud to play against me. That would be amazing.
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it; let us fight against destiny, even though without hope of victory.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.
People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
When I'm practising on my own, my game feels great, but there's a big difference between practising on your own and playing against people.
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
I've always felt misunderstood. Growing up, it's been my word against the teachers' or my parents' word, and nobody would ever listen to me.
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
When your back is against the wall, and you feel like you're losing faith and hope because so many things are coming at you at once, hold on.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
I'm not violent, I don't believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people.
Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.
You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
At 20, I was married, working as an auto mechanic, and living in Gainesville. I was doing Against Me!, but it wasn't by any means a full-time gig.
By the time you're 18, 19, you know yourself, and you shouldn't go against your gut feeling, which is a temptation in the first year of university.
Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
The story of Jackie Robinson is also the story of Branch Rickey. He had many reasons for doing what he did, but he stood up against his own people.
If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person.
We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.