We didn't play with pride. Pride is what you need right now. But all the little things (mistakes) are just piling up. The same things every night are killing us.
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Related Mistakes are killing us right now. JERRY RICE I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It's hard to articulate. It's a feeling now that things are just different than they have been here ... MATT HASSELBECK Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relate... JANE AUSTEN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We are just a little bit beside ourselves with pride. And at the same time, we are trying to show as... DALE SMITH That's the way Eddie made his niche in the league, doing little things, doing the dirty work, contin... GREG BUCKNER The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN All we can do now is play for pride. JOSHUA TINCH It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Things aren't great right now, but things are improving. Every month should be a little bit better. JOE GREFF Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN We came out here to play with determination and country pride and that is what really saw us through... ELAINE DAVIS Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN We play physical. We take pride in not giving up many points. We expect great things for this year. JOE KIRK What you need is not just Oracle, but two or three, four tech stocks to say things are stabilizing, ... ARTHUR CASHIN Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all... SUSANNAH CAHALAN We’ve all made mistakes, we all have struggles, and we‘ve done things we don’t even want to re... ANE KRSTEVSKA Showmanship is about the pride they take in their project (and) all these things are part of that. JOANNA RIZZO All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is sa... DAVID SEDARIS The day for people to just give us things is over. We have to stand up for ourselves. We have to hel... CYNTHIA WILLIAMS He's a stud. He takes great pride in all things involved with the tournament. He cares about making ... GREG SHAHEEN We just need to find a way to make things go right. It's all about us doing the right things. We hav... BRANDON STOCKTON Holding their heads up and just coming out here with pride regardless of what calls they got or didn... MELONIE MARTIN We had some mistakes tonight that we need to work on in the gym. Overall, I'm happy with the girl's ... CAREY FAGAN We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mista... STEVE MARABOLI The little mistakes are what have been setting us back. It's the little things that I see that are w... JUSTIN ARGRAVES We have a very inexperienced team and our opponents are playing at a different speed than we are. We... LARRY CARLESI The Big 12 is always looked at as a powerhouse conference, and if we are to win this game it would g... JEFF BALLARD We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we... E. STANLEY JONES Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world. FRANCIS OF ASSISI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON ALL things great are wound up with all things little. L. M. MONTGOMERY All things great are wound up with all things little. L.M. MONTGOMERY We are wrestling well right now. There are still things we need to improve on though. I think we nee... ROBIN ERSLAND But we are not thinking about those things right now. We just want to focus on getting better every ... ADAM GRANT Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. CRISS JAMI These things are killing us. Think about what you're doing. DORI FREELAIN When you play with confidence, you turn the ball over fewer times, you don't make as many mistakes, ... KARL TAIT We fought through the match. It's just that we were just making so many mental mistakes. I kept tell... CINDY WILLIAMS The Amount Of Pride In Who You Are, Will Determine The Amount Of Pride In What you Do! GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. JOHN RUSKIN This is not to be denied, not forgotten. But what we are focusing on are the good things, the contri... MARCIA ZERIVITZ In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND The world changes. The world is completely different now from when I was growing up. Back then, you ... JOHNNY MATHIS Right now we are just finding stuff to do. Little things like deciding to repaint a railing, just mi... JEFF NOBERS Injuries are killing us right now, ANDREW KERR Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swi... BRYANT GUMBEL There's no seduction any more, diary. No subtlety. No tidy-yourself-up in this world. No need for pe... SIMON SPURRIER I always say you don't just win with homers. You need a bunt, you need a hit-and-run, you need a ste... TONY LA RUSSA Obviously we've won a lot of games over the years. But those things don't matter, what matters is no... DENNIS RUETER Our team is going to be ready to play. You are going to be amazed. It is a special group with charac... CHRIS SCELFO You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY People have said we don't play a hard schedule. But (Friday night) we beat one of the better teams a... ASHTON WHIDDEN This generation just wanted beautiful things. All the customers we grew up with loved the same thing... LEE KIRK Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right. EZRA TAFT BENSON We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things. FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things... UDONIS HASLEM In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
- John Ruskin, JOHN RUSKIN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We pride ourselves on that. The guys who are playing just can't go through the motions like they wou... JUSTIN HAWKINS Nobody likes to be considered a rollover or a laughingstock. I think guys are taking pride in the no... JOE BOROWSKI We definitely want to head to the relays and bring a little California pride with us. BRYAN FETZER Mentally, St. Paul's is a very tough team. They play with pride and believe in what they are doing. ... HENRY LATTEN [Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dar... KATHERINE DUNN This as it will be seen is other far / Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song. / We love the thin... ROBERT FROST But in the overall scheme of things, we wouldn't be too far past what we are right now. BOBBY JOHNSON Systems wise, we're playing well in most areas on the field. But it's the mistakes that are just kil... BRIAN DOBIE When it's tough, you tend to speed things up, and I think we just got rushed a little bit. It was ha... JAMES HOLMES We're doing all the hard things but we're not doing all the easy things. We need to rebound, play wi... CANDICE WIGGINS Well, you really never know until you put them on the field, but right now we look good warming up, ... ROBERT JACKSON We are getting there. We made some mistakes late in the game. They put some press on us late in the ... PAUL ALTHAUS That's the passion and the pride we play with, it's just about competing. I wanted them to show they... DAVE VANDIVER The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and e... C.S. LEWIS For us right now the focus is definitely going to be on results. If we can come out and definitely p... GREG VANNEY We won with pride and dignity on Tuesday and we lost with the same pride and dignity on Friday. You ... COACH LOU PANE In Florida we are going to see a team with a lot of talent. We need to be more aggressive, more inte... JASON LAMB But why is it so hard to forgive?' Mrs. Conners asked. 'Pride,' Dad said. 'This person ha... BREE DESPAIN Things establish themselves. Every day, the training is right and guys are pushing each other and th... BOB BRADLEY I guess you could say its tough. But for the most part we've been winning that way, with different p... ASHANTI COOK What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER I laid myself fucking bare last night! I put it all out there, and you shut me down. Rightfully so. ... JENNY HAN We take pride in the fact that we bring things that are new and different, events people wouldn't be... DOUG BOOHER I’m sorry. Oh, what simple words are these! I’m sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ea... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with ... TRACY K. SMITH In terms of our lineup, I'm very undecided. We need to get back to some of the things that we did so... SEAN MILLER Three years from now, if the same things are happening, then maybe it would be time to do something.... ANDY KATZ At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such fee... ALBERT EINSTEIN Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride JONATHAN AITKEN I like the way things are going for us right now, ED NOTTLE It wasn't fun, but you still had a little pride in what you could do. BOB FRIEND you know what the best kind of organic certification would be? make an unannounced visit to a farm a... MICHAEL POLLAN We need to move the whole pack up. But these are all learning experiences. We're just starting to ge... BOB BROWN You're a professional, you have pride, and you have a contract to go out and play hard. But we do ha... RAFER ALSTON You have to focus on what you have to do, and obviously there are rumors swirling all over the place... ANDY MCCOLLUM
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