Like all the good comics, he was a perfectionist - he wouldn't settle for anything less.


Barry Cryer

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Once you know what you're worth, you won't settle for anything less.
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They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
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I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
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Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
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Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
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MATT BUCHANAN
I don't see why we should go out there and settle for anything less.
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I am not naive enough to settle for anything less than a reasonable valuation of my worth.
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He has very good practice skills, good habits. He never does anything less than 100 percent, and tha...
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He looked pretty good. He was D. Wade. If anything, [he was] a little sluggish for the most part. Bu...
JAMES POSEY
If you settle for less, you get less. If you settle for the best, you get the best.
LORRIN L. LEE
I have a lot of respect for Barry and what he does. I wish something like this didn't come up.
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The toughest for me to tackle? Barry Sanders. He was so elusive. And strong. And fast. And small.
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The greatest fear which deter one, is opinion of others.The moment you are unafraid of others commen...
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The way you treat yourself sets a parameter how you deserve to be be treated.Never settle for anythi...
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He wasn't just our coach, he was like a father and a good friend to us. He always sacrificed a lot t...
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Don't settle for anything less. Rise up and optimize your talents through strategic thinking and big...
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He was happy. He didn't seem like anything was wrong.
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Never settle for where you are, keep up climbing! Try and expect nothing less, be open for anything ...
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His velocity is good. He doesn't throw 90 or anything, but he throws a good fastball, a breaker and ...
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Not to settle for the gospel of the kingdom is to settle for something less
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When it comes
to love
do not ever
settle
for anything
less than magical.
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Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...
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BUCK MARTINEZ
If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less
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Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard...
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He helped people. Everybody loved him because he was a good person. He tried to help everybody. It w...
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He has a beautiful stroke. Pure as Rick Barry.
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He apologized for it about 20 million times. He's a good guy. I know he would never do anything like...
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If you understand that you understand art. When Renoir died he said, 'I never got to do the good pai...
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If you settle for less, you will get less. If you settle for the best, you will get the best. Your c...
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ...
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In that moment, he wondered how he'd ever believed she was anything less than spectacular.
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The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he...
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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he wa...
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Antoine knew what it was like to flee, to shed a life as though it were a cloak. He had learned to p...
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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish...
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He brought his intensity and he brought that he's a perfectionist. Everything has got to be perfect....
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He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a h...
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He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.
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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...
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He is a very good pitcher and he throws the ball very hard. I was just trying to put the ball in pla...
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He looked like he was diving into the end zone. He wasn't going to let anything stop him.
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JIMMY ROLLINS
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
MAUREEN DOWD
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He had a couple of foolish fouls in there, but he'll be all right. He just needs to settle down a li...
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I was impressed with the way he finished, even under good pressure. I don't feel like we gave him an...
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He didn't do that for any political purpose or anything like that. He did it because it was the righ...
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct...
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He had a heck of game. He's the first kid I've told I was going to take out for not shooting. Today ...
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else
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He's the boss, but he works for me.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. Bu...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Y...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
BARRY SCHWARTZ
What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about so...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Of course, bankers were always interested in making money. But when bankers had clients, they bore s...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of th...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Everybody makes money for a living, but most of us actually do something that has a point, in additi...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in chan...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. P...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence i...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need pe...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
Running back was always my favorite position.
BARRY SANDERS
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up ...
BARRY SANDERS
I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
BARRY SANDERS
I like retirement.
BARRY SANDERS
It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the r...
BARRY SANDERS
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I...
BARRY SANDERS
Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 seas...
BARRY SANDERS
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate t...
BARRY SANDERS
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her co...
BARRY SANDERS
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so w...
BARRY SANDERS
Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most im...
BARRY SANDERS
The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has le...
BARRY SANDERS
I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, y...
BARRY SANDERS
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS
I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always staye...
BARRY SANDERS
Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
BARRY SANDERS
Life doesn't stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoy...
BARRY SANDERS
Let's just win it and go home.
BARRY SANDERS
My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS
I really love peace and quiet.
BARRY SANDERS
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
BARRY SANDERS
It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...
BARRY SANDERS
Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
BARRY SANDERS
Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smar...
BARRY RITHOLTZ