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Tony Gwynn Quotes

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

Tony Gwynn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 9, 1960 - June 16, 2014

Topics

Care You Swing Matter Two Going

The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

John Burroughs

Heart Light Body Human Cheerful

Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.

John Collison

Knowledge People Mind Building Open

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you came out as, and a lot of kids don't have that ride.

Andreja Pejic

Family Ride Parents Loved Grow You

I'm super grateful that there wasn't social media when I was a kid, but that sort of self-doubt crept in at a young age. It's bullying. It's the comments here and there, and maybe somebody says something to you that they don't even mean to be a mean-spirited comment, but they'll just kind of say it to you in passing.

Amy Schumer

Age Grateful Social Media Bullying

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

Stewart Udall

Environmental Face Pressure Pollution

You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.

Stone Gossard

Music Experience People Think You

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be 'Citizens United.' I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Decision Money Democracy Think Buy

We want every generation to know a little something about TLC.

Rozonda Thomas

Generation Know Want Little TLC

It sometimes feels like the workplace is immune from social upheaval. We go to work and do the best we can, and at the end of the day, we return to our lives. We don't abandon who we are, however, when we begin and end our workday. Who we are shapes how we are perceived in the workplace and, in turn, how we perform in the workplace.

Roxane Gay

Work Best Day End Of The Day End Go

I think there is a real value in an editorial point-of-view and in editorial curation, and in putting together an entire narrative around a set of topics is important.

Michael Wolf

Together Value Think Important Real

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Denis Waitley

Mistakes Only Lessons Failures

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

Chris Van Allsburg

Opportunity Time People World Small