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Billy Beane Quotes

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: March 29, 1962

Topics

Winter Best Job Support Team Impact

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Responsibility Conviction Opposites

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It's a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.

Robert Stromberg

People Year Los Angeles Director Out

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Robert Kiyosaki

Success Failure People You Say Also

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

Life Women Romantic Men Travel War

Every time my manager approached big network executives or even cable, they told him I was too dangerous. They couldn't trust me.

Time Trust Me Dangerous Manager Him

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Health Start Think Care You Early

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Looking Better You Look Find Go

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

Child Parents Church Only Child Only

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Technology Time People Saying Go

Not that I'm bragging or anything, because I was shocked, but I literally got hundreds of emails from people during my time on 'Project Runway' asking me out on dates. I had no idea that people would even care.

Time People Me Care Project Asking

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

Opportunity Great Teen Me Think Get

I'll take a redrum with a rellik please.

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