#prove

Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#crew #day #determined #dismayed #leagues

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#change #confront #corporate #development #economic

The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#changes #deal #expansion #federal #federal government

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#alone #common #determination #educated #education

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. ↗

— Jackie Cooper

#artist #effort #improve #made #never

Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement. ↗

— Kenneth H. Cooper

#fitness #further #i #improvement #miles

In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#admit #after #anyone #beginning #came

More than any audience in the world, Americans will cross their arms, stare at you and say, 'OK, whaddya got?' - no matter how many times you've proven it to them. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#arms #audience #cross #got #how

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#improvement #individual #inner #possible #source