Rain Ocampo Quotes

#1. You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.

Tim Finchem

#2. Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.

Tom Lehman

#3. I have seen into the heart of the universe.

Brian Herbert

#4. What were you doing up on that ledge?" It comes out a whisper.

"The same thing you were. I wanted to see what it was like. I wanted to imagine jumping off it. I wanted to leave all the shit behind. But when I did start to imagine it, I didn't like what it looked like. And then I saw you.

Jennifer Niven

#5. The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

Emma Goldman

#6. You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

Mitchell Reiss

#7. The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Voltaire

#8. Earl "The Goat" Manigault was probably the greatest basketball player of all time, but Michael Jordan is universally regarded as the best ever. This is because The Goat only did it at Rucker Park, while Michael did it where it mattered: in front of the world.

Tucker Max

#9. The people of Southwest have always been my pride, my joy and my love. Their indomitable dedication and esprit de corps have taken Southwest from a three-airplane dream to a 500-airplane reality.

Herb Kelleher

#10. I may fight the British ruler, but I do not hate the English or their language. In fact, I appreciate their literary treasures.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

John Piper

#12. I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else can I sit down for two hours with people who understand the challenge I face, daily, as a life-chronicler?

Nigel Hamilton

#13. I cannot live, if I am already dead.

Donna Russo Morin