#winner

So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers. ↗

— David Korten

#enormous #global #global economy #instability #losers

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#advance #event #expectations #habit #make

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher. ↗

— Murray Walker

#grand #grand prix #line #michael #monaco

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#both #children #coffee #cut #degrees

They know what the “perfumes” are going to say because they always say the same thing, but they pretend to believe them anyway. (a)“I could change your life.” (b)“A lot of women would like to be in your shoes.” (c)“You’re young now, but what will become of you in a few years’ time? You need to think about making a longer-term investment.” (d)“I’m married, but my wife . . .” (This opening line can have various endings: “. . . is ill,” “. . . has threatened to commit suicide if I leave her,” etc.) (e)“You’re a princess and deserve to be treated like one. I didn’t know it until now, but I’ve been waiting for you. I don’t believe in coincidences and I really think we ought to give this relationship a chance. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #the-winner-stands-alone #change

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong if you picked one of them up and stuck your nose real close to it when you turned the pages. Then there was the the smell of the cloth that covered the brand-new books, books that made a splitting sound when you opened them. Then I could sniff the the paper, that soft, powdery, drowsy smell that comes off the page in little puffs when you're reading something or looking at some pictures, kind of hypnotizing smell. I think it's the smell that makes so many folks fall asleep in the library. You'll see someone turn a page and you can imagine a puff of page powder coming up real slow and easy until it starts piling on a person's eyelashes, weighing their eyes down so much they stay down a little longer after each blink and finally making them so heavy that they just don't come back up at all. Then their mouths open and their heads start bouncing up and down like they're bobbing in a big tub of of water for apples and before you know it... they're out cold and their face thunks smack-dab on the book. That's the part that makes librarians the maddest. They get real upset if folks start drooling in the books ↗

— Christopher Paul Curtis

#falling-asleep #librarian #library #newberry #newberry-medal-winner

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#employee #example #good #good example #how

Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat. ↗

— Byron Nelson

#cat #different #winners

We have to get government out of the job of picking winners and losers. That's what they've been doing the last year and a half, getting in the way of businesses that are trying to reinvest to get our economy back on its feet. ↗

— Kristi Noem

#been #businesses #doing #economy #feet

We changed our image. At least when we ran out on the field or broke the huddle, we would look like winners. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#changed #field #image #least #like