#rain

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#after #away #balance #competition #everyone

I consider anybody who weighs over 200 pounds fat, and time was when I could not refrain from telling such people so. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#consider #could #fat #i #over

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#brains #cared #classic #classic example #drive

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency. ↗

— George Tenet

#agency #any #best #came #case

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. ↗

— Eugene Wigner

#becoming #complex #fact #in fact #long

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#brain #gear #into #mantra #otherwise

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#aware #brain #cognition #emotion #experience

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. ↗

— William Weld

#concentrations #everybody #industry #restrain #situation

An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain? ↗

— Dee Hock

#apply #ask #audiences #beliefs #brain

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. ↗

— Carl Levin

#communities #effectively #equipment #essential #firefighters