#lievin

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked. ↗

— Epictetus

#believing #desire #good #wicked #you

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to win Wimbledon, is by going after your shots, believing you can do it, and that's what I was able to do today. ↗

— Roger Federer

#after #believing #bigger #bit #decided

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. ↗

— George Combe

#course #discourse #discovered #evening #every

The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994. ↗

— David Cone

#after #august #believing #cap #choice

I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children. ↗

— Edie Falco

#believing #body #children #come #connected

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#civilisation #devil #explanation #given #modern

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really. ↗

— Lydia Ko

#also #amateur #because #comfortable #course

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward. ↗

— Robin Trower

#forward #going #move #move forward #something

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ↗

— Alan Turing

#called #computer #could #deceive #deserve

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character. ↗

— Haley Joel Osment

#advice #around #believing #best #character