Leray Walmart Quotes

#1. Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ. Self-discipline also predicted which students would improve their grades over the course of the school year, whereas IQ did not. ... Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.5.2

Charles Duhigg

#2. I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

Harmon Killebrew

#3. It was useless. The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. Then,

Oscar Wilde

#4. All anything takes, really, is confidence.

Rachel Ward

#5. The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.

Matthew Stewart

#6. You threw him away. Sloppy, Hugh.

Ilona Andrews

#7. On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

H.L. Mencken

#8. The quality of the content is not determined by the section it sits in in the bookstore.

Christine Riccio

#9. It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

Stone Gossard

#10. We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own.

Dexter Palmer