All Quotes

Mentally, I have to get my body and mind in the right place before I start the routine, but once into the zone, it's like I turn on a switch. I envision myself doing the same thing for the Olympic Games.
‐‐ Simone Biles

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.
‐‐ Shani Davis

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
‐‐ Tom Brady

Mention health in most companies, and the cost of health insurance is what comes to mind, not how the company can invest to prevent further escalation in societal health care costs.
‐‐ John Quelch

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
‐‐ Elvis Costello

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
‐‐ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
‐‐ John C. Crosby

Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.
‐‐ Daymond John

Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
‐‐ Daymond John

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.
‐‐ Gerald Chertavian

Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.
‐‐ Beth Brooke

Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.
‐‐ Peter Woo

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
‐‐ Bat for Lashes

Menuhin was playing Bach on a fantastic spiritual level when he was a teenager.
‐‐ Nigel Kennedy

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Mercer was very clever. He knew the way Southerners spoke and put that into his lyrics. But in that whole era, you had the best. Harold Arlen was just fantastic. Cole Porter was better than anybody, and Gershwin was Gershwin, y'know. Johnny Mercer started Capitol Records, and he brought in Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Nat King Cole.
‐‐ Tony Bennett

Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban.
‐‐ Charles Platt

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.
‐‐ Mark Dayton

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response.
‐‐ Tom Allen

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
‐‐ Thurgood Marshall

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
‐‐ Joseph Addison

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
‐‐ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
‐‐ George Whitefield

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.
‐‐ Haruki Murakami

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
‐‐ Helen Hayes

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
‐‐ Steven Biko

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.
‐‐ Ron DeSantis

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.
‐‐ Clifford Stoll

Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Mergers generate substantial synergies.
‐‐ Roger Altman

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
‐‐ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Merit should count more than academic background.
‐‐ Lee Myung-bak

Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
‐‐ Eric Ries

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
‐‐ Jack Youngblood

'Merlin' was a big step; it was my first big role in a show.
‐‐ Tom Hopper

Merlin was five years of my life. I enjoyed every year, every day. I had a brilliant time on it. But I'd be lying if I didn't say I wanted to do more.
‐‐ Colin Morgan