#inn

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches. ↗

— Paul Hogan

#always #beginning #bit #cricket #drink

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#better #crisis #difficult #duty #end

See, winners embrace hard work. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#hard #hard work #see #winners #work

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning. ↗

— Horace

#deed #done #half #made #who

The determination to win is the better part of winning. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#determination #part #win #winning

A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place you would expect astonishing things to happen. Harry Potter rolled over inside his blankets without waking up. One small hand closed on the letter beside him and he slept on, not knowing he was special, not knowing he was famous, not knowing he would be woken in a few hours' time by Mrs. Dursley's scream as she opened the front door to put out the milk bottles, nor that he would spend the next few weeks being prodded and pinched by his cousin Dudley...He couldn't know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: "To Harry Potter - the boy who lived! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#fame #fate #harry-potter #innocence #secret

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#begins #ends #imitation #innovation

Innovation is creativity with a job to do. ↗

— John Emmerling

#innovation #job

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe. ↗

— Vic Morrow

#found #large #me #metal #pinned

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. ↗