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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
[ "food" ]
How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
[ "time" ]
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra
[ "sports" ]
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
[ "funny" ]
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
[ "future" ]
Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra
[ "good" ]
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra
[ "change" ]
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
[ "sports" ]
I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra
[ "funny" ]
I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
Yoko Ono
[ "anger", "positive" ]
I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
Yoko Ono
[ "music" ]
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
Yoko Ono
[ "change" ]
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
Yoko Ono
[ "family" ]
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
Yoko Ono
[ "birthday" ]
War is over if you want it.
Yoko Ono
[ "war" ]
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
Yoko Ono
[ "change", "peace", "power" ]
The nice thing about the gallery shows is that without having to pay any money you can just go and see it.
Yoko Ono
[ "money" ]
Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
Yoko Ono
[ "positive" ]
Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
Yoko Ono
[ "marriage" ]
People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.
Yoko Ono
[ "communication" ]
Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
Yoko Ono
[ "money" ]
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
Yoko Ono
[ "art", "nature" ]
John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
Yoko Ono
[ "future" ]
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is a reality.
Yoko Ono
[ "alone" ]
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono
[ "alone", "dreams" ]
The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.
Yoko Ono
[ "society" ]
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
Yoko Ono
[ "education" ]
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
Yoko Ono
[ "peace" ]
Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono
[ "alone" ]
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Yoko Ono
[ "movingon" ]
Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
Yoko Ono
[ "morning", "smile" ]
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
Yoko Ono
[ "society" ]
Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
Yoko Ono
[ "music" ]
I trust myself. You need that to survive.
Yoko Ono
[ "trust" ]
Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
Yoko Ono
[ "teacher" ]
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono
[ "anger", "sad" ]
All my concerts had no sounds in them they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
[ "music" ]
When you go to war, both sides lose totally.
Yoko Ono
[ "war" ]
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono
[ "home" ]
What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
Yoko Ono
[ "respect" ]
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
[ "architecture", "hope" ]
There is a brief moment when all there is in a man's mind and soul and spirit is reflected through his eyes, his hands, his attitude. This is the moment to record.
Yousuf Karsh
[ "attitude" ]
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh
[ "alone", "great", "men" ]
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
Yuan T. Lee
[ "car" ]
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima
[ "truth" ]
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
Yul Brynner
[ "men", "women" ]
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
Yunus Emre
[ "home" ]
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
Yusef Lateef
[ "beauty" ]
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
Yvon Chouinard
[ "nature" ]
Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
Yvon Chouinard
[ "travel" ]
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
Yvonne Craig
[ "imagination" ]
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey
[ "freedom" ]
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey
[ "anniversary" ]
I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey
[ "birthday" ]
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
[ "nature" ]
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey
[ "inspirational" ]
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "fear", "leadership" ]
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "freedom" ]
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "leadership" ]
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "relationship" ]
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "failure" ]
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "religion" ]
The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "relationship" ]
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "peace" ]
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
[ "failure", "intelligence" ]
You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Zebulon Pike
[ "knowledge" ]
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Zebulon Pike
[ "smile" ]
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike
[ "peace" ]
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald
[ "love" ]
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald
[ "future" ]
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
[ "dreams" ]
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell Miller
[ "freedom", "politics" ]
History can never be covered up.
Zhu Rongji
[ "history" ]
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Zig Ziglar
[ "success" ]
I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.
Zig Ziglar
[ "best", "good" ]
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar
[ "work" ]
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life", "money" ]
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar
[ "business" ]
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life" ]
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Zig Ziglar
[ "best" ]
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life - all areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.
Zig Ziglar
[ "good", "life", "success" ]
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
[ "faith", "love", "success" ]
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Zig Ziglar
[ "success" ]
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Zig Ziglar
[ "positive" ]
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar
[ "money" ]
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Zig Ziglar
[ "success" ]
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life" ]
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar
[ "failure" ]
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
Zig Ziglar
[ "business", "home", "life", "success" ]
You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar
[ "positive" ]
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life" ]
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life", "men" ]
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
[ "attitude" ]
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
Zig Ziglar
[ "good", "home" ]
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Zig Ziglar
[ "failure" ]
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar
[ "god", "society" ]
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar
[ "failure", "success" ]
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
[ "failure" ]
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
Zig Ziglar
[ "life" ]
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
Zona Gale
[ "poetry" ]