Defied The Odds Quotes

#1. When I was about 10, I saw Timothy Bottoms in a tele-movie called 'A Shining Season,' and it really moved me. I was maybe 8 or 9. Timothy played a runner who had cancer, and he defied the odds by coaching a girls' team to victory.

Reggie Lee

#2. It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Harold S. Geneen

#3. I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

Miranda July

#4. Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations.

Pat Brown

#5. I can describe myself as a leader who gives my team members opportunities to shine.

Ethan Powers

#6. Let the motherfucking games begin.

Gail McHugh

#7. Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

Marie Corelli

#8. Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining the Air Force, which was a pretty standard way for people to get some kind of musical education in those days.

Evan Parker

#9. I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

Suze Orman

#10. A fawn eats the equivalent of its body weight every twenty-four hours." "How do you know that?" "Read it in a book. I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," she said with a superior sniff. "Hard

Susan Wiggs

#11. Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that?

Adrienne Wilder

#12. To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#13. What an honor it was to step into the shoes of Nelson Mandela and portray a man who defied odds, broke down barriers, and championed human rights before the eyes of the world.

Idris Elba

#14. I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook - what I want the track to be about melodically - and then I'll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.

Avicii