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“If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.”
Kobe Bryant (1978–2020) American basketball player
Golda Meir (1898–1978) former prime minister of Israel
Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variant: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
“It's not only the question, but the way you try to solve it.”
Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) Iranian mathematician
Interview with Research Fellow Maryam Mirzakhani | january 2008
“The only way to abolish war is to make peace heroic.”
John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
James Hinton, Philosophy and Religion: Selections from the Manuscripts of the Late James Hinton, ed. Caroline Haddon, (2nd ed., London: 1884), [//books.google.com/books?id=DpxRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA267 p. 267].
Widely misattributed on the internet to Dewey, who actually attributes it to Hinton in Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology (New York: 1922), [//books.google.com/books?id=Ws0RAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 p. 115].
Misattributed
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Radio Interview, February 19 2005 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_31_2.MP3I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative. <br class="br">2000s
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
“I'm not performing miracles, I'm using up and wasting a lot of paint…”
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
“Out of everything I've lost, I miss my mind the most!”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
“Pooh, how do you spell love?' 'You don't spell love Piglet, you feel it”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Variant: How do you spell love?
You don't spell it, you feel it.
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
"The Leaning Tower", lecture delivered to the Workers' Educational Association, Brighton (May 1940)
The Moment and Other Essays (1948)
“You get depressed because you know that you're not what you should be.”
Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor
“Never get high on your ownly supply.”
The Notorious B.I.G. (1972–1997) American rapper
"Ten Crack Commandments"
Song lyrics
“Fijians will never be recognized unless our blood is first shed.”
Lala Sukuna (1888–1958) Chief of Lau and civil servant in Fiji
Miscellaneous quotes
