Second Quotes

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A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right. — Tommy Lasorda
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It… — Glenn Hoddle
The second thing to be striven for is intuition. This sounds an impossibility, for who can control that small quiet monitor? But intuition is only… — Wilfred Trotter
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to… — Franz Kafka
I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't… — Herb Ritts
In heaven there are two distinct loves, love to the Lord and love towards the neighbor, in the inmost or third heaven love to the… — Emanuel Swedenborg
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey
There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns… — Charlie Munger
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at… — Carl Icahn
I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families, perhaps I should say.… — Abraham Lincoln
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought. — Martin Van Buren
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the… — Martin Van Buren
No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time. — Edmund Hillary
If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of… — David Ben-Gurion
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all… — Ryan Tedder
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able… — Pee Wee Reese
The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products. — Philip Kotler
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to do something, to… — G. H. Hardy
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take. — Fiona Shaw
But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because… — Eduard Shevardnadze

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