Top 19 Orlick Quotes
#1. Quoting some advice from Terry Orlick:
You can only live this day once, this opportunity now. Once it is gone, it is gone. Embrace the opportunity.
Clara Hughes
#2. Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#3. If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.
Terry Orlick
#4. I'm paraphrasing, but basically Sherlock warned that you should never theorize before you have the facts because then you twist the facts to suit the theory instead of twisting the theory to suit the facts.
Harlan Coben
#5. A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H.L. Mencken
#6. Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.
Terry Orlick
#7. A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
Terry Orlick
#8. Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling
#9. There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
Calvin Trillin
#10. Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."
Winston Churchill
#12. The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only the oleanders thrived, their delicate poisonous blooms, their dagger green leaves. We could not sleep in the hot dry nights, my mother and I.
Janet Fitch
#14. I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.
Mark Zero
#15. A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#16. Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#17. Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.
Terry Orlick
#19. The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.
Terry Orlick
