Linford Christie Quotes
Sad Quotes by Linford Christie

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing
diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as
well as increasing levels of exercise.
- Linford Christie

I have got better things to do in working with my athletes
who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
- Linford Christie

I am a coach on the outside of the establishment and that works.
- Linford Christie

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in,
day out, rain or shine, doing it.
- Linford Christie

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain
for our athletes to compete properly,
and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.
- Linford Christie

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.
- Linford Christie

I think it's great that they are getting funding,
but it's just too easy.
They don't have to work for it.
We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
- Linford Christie

I know what it takes to get to the top.
- Linford Christie

But I sometimes think we have too much of a fixation about 2012.
- Linford Christie

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride.
They left school at 16, have never had a job in their
life and are getting Lottery funding,
earning money as an athlete.
- Linford Christie

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative,
but we do have to try and improve things.
- Linford Christie

My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.
- Linford Christie

I coach a few guys and they work very,
very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.
- Linford Christie

We have got to go out there and deliver,
go on the streets and find athletes,
improve facilities around the country and find coaches.
We have got to go out there and search for a star.
- Linford Christie

Obviously I was disappointed when it fell into disuse,
because it was my own track named after me,
but I am sure all those youngsters we lost will be coming back,
and I certainly intend to be down here as much as I can,
coaching and advising.
- Linford Christie

Consider adopting the ongoing practice of zero-based gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents,
to sort of remind myself of him.
A homage.
He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.
- Gavin DeGraw

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old,
before it became 'hip.'
- Tyra Banks

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental
program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental
quality and economic growth.
- Barry Commoner

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting.
We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own,
but we just changed our mind.
- Hugh Jackman

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative
stress into a positive one.
- Hans Selye

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British,
system, we place ourselves side by side with the men
who have ruined Ireland and India,
and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
- Henry Charles Carey

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother.
I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars.
They had no control and were scared.
That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.
- Linda Blair

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by
the side of those whose measures tend not only to the
improvement of their own subjects,
but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.
- Henry Charles Carey

Nevertheless, the number of farmers,
small as well as large,
who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly,
and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
- Norman Borlaug

House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans.
We hope President Obama will follow through on his
support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders
to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this
critical step to restore public trust.
- John Boehner

I feel that I, and the people under my command,
tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting
agents which were also used by other intelligence services;
adopting also means like pressure,
money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
- Markus Wolf

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics.
By adopting the positions which animate the political
agenda for the other side,
one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
- Dick Morris

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
- Isaac Newton
(discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion,
famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

Consider calling it a challenge
rather than calling it a crisis.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Consider a new beginning with your family -
choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that, seize the opportunity
to sharpen those qualities even more sharply
by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I renounce all assumptions and expectations.
I thoughtfully consider all possibilities,
and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Animals, whom we have made our slaves,
we do not like to consider our equal.
- Charles Darwin

Honor your past, and all the consequences of that past.
Receive insight into relieving the pain
caused by past experiences and current attitudes toward life.
Observe life as it currently appears,
and then train yourself to observe life
from other perspectives that support a higher quality of living.
Re-consider your priorities.
Chart your Course.
Set Sail with Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When was the last time you took
a different route to work ... just because?
Consider shaking up your life a little (or a lot) ...
for no reason, except to do it.
Let your life be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart -
I renounce all assumptions and expectations,
and I declare that I will thoughtfully consider all possibilities.
I will CHOOSE with courage, awareness,
consciousness, and compassion toward all.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I CHOOSE with Thoughtful Consideration:
I renounce all assumptions and expectations,
and declare that I will thoughtfully consider
all possibilities and CHOOSE among them with consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ask why this task is on your to-do list.
Consider discarding those items to which
you are not truly committed.
For the tasks which do speak
to the longings of your own heart,
begin now, today, this moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Calm provides clarity. Pause to consider
the gifts you have been given,
the difference you have made
and the direction in which you are headed.
- Anonymous

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to
remember seven generations in the past and
consider seven generations in the future
when making decisions that affect the people.
- Wilma Mankiller

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill

Lighten up! Slow down the shopping.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
Consider gifting hand-made cards with messages
of true appreciation in place of store-bought presents.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider a parent who says,
"Look at the sacrifices I'm making so you can have a better life."
Contrast that with another parent who demonstrates
living a great life every day.
Self-sacrifice is not a virtue.
Living a great life and sharing that life with others
is the noble way to live.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

Expectation (demand) is always a cause of suffering.
Rather than "expecting" to be repaid
when we "loan" something to someone,
consider the "loans" we make to be forward payments
for the "loans" we received from
our ancestors, nurturers and others.
Request that any "loan" that we make be repaid FORWARD,
when the recipient is able,
and then completely forget about the "loan."
It is no longer our business if, when, or how
the "loan" is repaid - or is not repaid.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider,
every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
- Martin Luther

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly,
but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Khalil Gibran

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Cato

If your home is not a place where you can truly
kick-back and be yourself - both physically and emotionally -
consider making some changes in your way-of-life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein

I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
- Alexa Vega

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
- Rudolf Diesel

What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings,
and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- John Wooden

No religious position is loyally served by refusing
to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.
- Norman Lamm

I consider it part of my responsibility as President
of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes
of Islam wherever they appear.
- Barack Obama

Many people consider the things government does for
them to be social progress but they regard the things
government does for others as socialism.
- Earl Warren

Sharpen your pencil as you create the story of your life.
Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -
what is the highest and best use
of your talents, skills and abilities?
When you answer that,
seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities
even more sharply by applying your focused effort.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic.
- Mario Lopez

For much of the female half of the world,
food is the first signal of our inferiority.
It lets us know that our own families may consider
female bodies to be less deserving,
less needy, less valuable.
- Gloria Steinem

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat,
a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him,
or at least proposing.
- Sparky Anderson

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body,
but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
- Eric Hoffer

I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal,
I was disappointed that they didn't.
- Louise Woodward

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
- Ann Wilson