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Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.

The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

I had fun, but I didn't really have anyone i particularly loved except for loving friends. But I have a certain amount of faith that it will come.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

If you decide you don't have to get A's, you can learn an enormous amount in college.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

The increase of this efficiency is essentially the problem of the manager, and the amount to which it can be increased by proper study is, in most cases, so great as to be almost incredible.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

In order to be truly great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Our life-transformation is in exact proportion to the amount of truth we can take without running away.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.

If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much.

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

It’s not about the amount of time you devote but rather what you devote to that time that counts.

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

Think of the purest, most all-consuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount-that is the measure of God’s love for you.

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

I used to think I had to stay frozen in time. No amount of Botox will keep up.