#ife

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attributed #british #dinner #great #great success

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#anybody #believe #best #body #comes

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun- Tzu

#life #war #intelligence

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#all things #as far as #doubt #far #least

The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited more by going into banking. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#being #benefited #better #educated #finished

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life. ↗

— Tony Blair

#conversations #decision #difficult #everybody #frank

It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#difficult #imagine #life #me #my life

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. ↗

— Buddha

#abundance #count #live #midst #must

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. ↗

— William Golding

#fire #life #life

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed. ↗

— Eric Dickerson

#because #big #come #contract #expectancy