Terry 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. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!

Rick Yancey

#3. No failure is final unless you ratify it.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. 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

#5. Where the mind goes, everything follows.

Terry Orlick

#6. Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

Terry Orlick

#7. I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Jazz Feylynn

#8. A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Terry Orlick

#9. Belief is the mother of reality. Excellence is a state of mind.

Terry Orlick

#10. In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Vladimir Kramnik

#11. To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. 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