It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
Ruth J. Simmons
Related
Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the...
ROBIN S. SHARMA Don’t allow your ego to ruin your life. The spirit does not operate in ego!
FRAN LEIGH The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
EBERHARD WEBER It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always figh...
TAYLOR HACKFORD Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value...
MARK MATTHEWS To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It i...
BARBRA STREISAND You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
WAYNE DYER It's frustrating. It takes ego to get to the NFL. And your ego gets bruised a little bit when someon...
JIM KIICK I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preservi...
KAREN ARMSTRONG That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thin...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your...
COLIN POWELL Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it...
JOHN RENMERDE Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it...
COLIN POWELL Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a dec...
DEEPAK CHOPRA I fed my ego, but not my soul.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that...
JAYSON ENGAY I don't think there's room in video games for people to bring an ego. It's very frustrat...
NOLAN NORTH Apologizing Doesn't Mean that Your Wrong and the other is Right. It Only means That you Value the Re...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it...
GEORGE MICHAEL When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are to...
KEITH HARING You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.
PIERCE BROSNAN Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego...
COLIN POWELL Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y...
IAN MCSHANE Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above wa...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside of you and the anger...
PHILIP T. M. You don't want to vilify your ego.
JEFF BRIDGES I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the de...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your h...
PEMA CHODRON Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, a...
DWAYNE JOHNSON Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside your head and the an...
PHILIP T. M. It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essent...
JOANNA GARCIA It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never ...
BRUCE PERENS Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a re...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Marriage is not a simple love affair, it’s an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation
SUNDAY ADELAJA Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside your head and the an...
PHILIP T. M. Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside your head and the an...
PHILIP T. M. It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing...
WARREN CHRISTOPHER Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside of you and the anger...
PHILIP T. M. Your worst enemy is not the person you hate most! But the ego that lives inside of you and the anger...
PHILIP T. M. It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
KALEY CUOCO It is an ego in man, that is shocked to find ego in others.
SRI AUROBINDO Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patien...
DEBBIE FORD It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.
KAMAND KOJOURI Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
GARY HOPKINS Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen.
GARY HOPKINS While paying attention to positive and negative feedback is very important, it is not enough. What a...
CENDRINE MARROUAT The most spiritual place you can be in your life is when you're being very real, when you're...
MEREDITH BROOKS I think that's very important. He's not an ego person, or anything like that,
COLIN BELL To boost your Self-Esteem or EGO, do not get into trap of Self-Deception!
AMIT KUMAR SINGH Do not believe in a god who is as silly, and meaner than you. For, that would surely be your higher-...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS First you stop judging yourself; then you stop judging your partner. The greatest catalyst for chang...
ECKHART TOLLE Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forti...
GEOFFREY RUSH You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to...
CARINE ROITFELD The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identi...
WAYNE DYER The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.
ALAN BALL It's easy to never make a mistake, when you are hiding yourself away from the possibility of making ...
C. JOYBELL C. You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos
RUDYARD KIPLING If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its e...
DEE HOCK How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,'...
IYANLA VANZANT It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI For me, it's about surrounding myself with the best, most talented team out there, and not ever ...
CHAD STAHELSKI Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's ...
YEHUDA BERG Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a g...
WERNER HERZOG Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is n...
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?'...
LAMAR ODOM It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, b...
RACHEL BILSON To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Those who act in ego do not go beyond karma. It is only by Guru's Grace that one is rid of ego.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Turning something over to the Holy Spirit is a leap of faith that lets go of attempting to control o...
DAVID HOFFMEISTER That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you fe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The Crystal Cathedral is not an attempt to be an architectural ego-statement. It's probably the ...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized ...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Salvation presents you to take your “ego” off the throne of your life
SUNDAY ADELAJA Kill your ego and it's a guarantee that you'd fair better in life
DANIEL OKE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in so...
DAVID O. RUSSELL Sex is a very important part of a relationship but its not the foundation. A relationship cant last ...
NERISSA IRVING Practicing presence to more than ego will not only reduce stress, ward off symptoms of depression an...
TONY SAMARA a lack of ego will not diminish your personality, but will help you find yourself
SUNALLURE I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece,...
JESSIE J
More Ruth J. Simmons
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the i...
RUTH J. SIMMONS If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would...
RUTH J. SIMMONS I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to th...
RUTH J. SIMMONS Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the Uni...
RUTH J. SIMMONS Pain is subtle. He has cold grey fingers. His voice is horse from crying & screaming... When peo...
J. RUTH GENDLER Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea...
J. RUTH GENDLER I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territo...
J. RUTH GENDLER Sensuality does not wear a watch but she always gets to the essential places on time. She is adventu...
J. RUTH GENDLER Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the nigh...
J. RUTH GENDLER I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was gett...
J. K. SIMMONS I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my liv...
J. K. SIMMONS People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adult...
J. K. SIMMONS I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ...
J. K. SIMMONS I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes a...
J. K. SIMMONS Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was s...
J. K. SIMMONS I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's ...
J. K. SIMMONS I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
J. K. SIMMONS My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
J. K. SIMMONS Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
J. K. SIMMONS I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz w...
J. K. SIMMONS When we were shooting 'Oz,' my wife was doing 'Beauty and the Beast' on Broadway, si...
J. K. SIMMONS My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the ...
J. K. SIMMONS I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the w...
J. K. SIMMONS A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our pe...
J. K. SIMMONS I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other...
J. K. SIMMONS Good material is good material.
J. K. SIMMONS My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, ...
J. K. SIMMONS I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the w...
J. K. SIMMONS When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was...
J. K. SIMMONS I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operetta...
J. K. SIMMONS If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that beca...
J. K. SIMMONS If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' beca...
J. K. SIMMONS My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I j...
J. K. SIMMONS I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you k...
J. K. SIMMONS Fortunately, for the first 20 years in my career, I didn't have any other responsibilities outsi...
J. K. SIMMONS I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was ...
J. K. SIMMONS There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
J. K. SIMMONS Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments...
J. K. SIMMONS I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.
RUTH REICHL The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new for...
RUTH BERNHARD My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower...
RUTH REICHL Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television...
RUTH RENDELL Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ...
RUTH RENDELL If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise...
RUTH PORAT I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ...
RUTH OZEKI How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
BABE RUTH Paris ain't much of a town.
BABE RUTH Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
BABE RUTH Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTH All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BABE RUTH If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
BABE RUTH I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand...
BABE RUTH Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that...
BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobac...
BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
BABE RUTH As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ...
BABE RUTH Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b...
RUTH REICHL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ...
RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl...
RUTH SMELTZER All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi...
RUTH WILSON I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble...
RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
RUTH BEECHICK It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
RUTH ROSS Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
RUTH HUBBARD Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy...
RUTH MORGAN Watch my dust.
BABE RUTH In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t...
RUTH GORDON Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th...
RUTH GORDON To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the...
RUTH HUBBARD The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions ...
RUTH HUBBARD The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
RUTH ALMOG I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
RUTH STOUT The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'l...
RUTH REICHL Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
RUTH GORDON The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.
RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
RUTH BROWN You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know abo...
RUTH REICHL Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way th...
RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It...
RUTH RENDELL The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ...
RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr...
RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one...
RUTH PARK If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegran...
RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y...
RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley ...
RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou...
RUTH HARRIS I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
RUTH STOUT By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminish...
RUTH REICHL Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ...
RUTH OZEKI Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I...
RUTH REICHL Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
RUTH NEGGA I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing ...
BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ...
RUTH HANDLER Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bi...
BABE RUTH It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much...
RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what...
RUTH WILSON Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
RUTH REICHL The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
RUTH BENEDICT The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social exper...
RUTH REICHL The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make...
RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ...
RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo...
RUTH HARRISON Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of ...
RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.
RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi...
RUTH OZEKI If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford...
RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
RUTH HANDLER My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining...
RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co...
RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l...
RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te...
RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective...
RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of...
RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse...
RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I...
RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
RUTH GORDON Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
BABE RUTH It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up
BABE RUTH You have to have a talent for having talent.
RUTH GORDON In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
RUTH GORDON Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har...
BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
BABE RUTH I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst...
RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ...
RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950...
RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ...
RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see.
RUTH AITKEN