Near Misses Quotes

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  I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

  Howard Schultz

  Éxito, Liderazgo, Creer

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). "Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time".

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• La gente recuerda los choques, pero los conductores recuerdan los casi accidentes.

  Mario Andretti

  Nascar Racing, Personas, Desaparecidos

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.

  George Carlin

  Bullshit, Missing, Looks

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.275, Hachette UK

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• When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

  Eliza Coupe

  Cities, Missing, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Missing, Stronger, Lessons

  "Golden girl Paula Radcliffe lowers her sights to the Olympic bronze". Interview with Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• De alguna manera, en muchos de esos casos en los que he estado a punto de fracasar, he conseguido luchar y continuar. Pero en todas esas situaciones, incluso cuando aparentemente van bien, siento que vivo en el filo de la navaja entre el éxito y el fracaso, la adulación y la humillación, entre justificar mi existencia y revelar mi indignidad de estar vivo.

  Scott Stossel

  Fighting, Missing, Alive

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• The onset of more severe climate impacts overseas may also open up temporary opportunities, or 'policy windows.' These would allow legislators the licence to take specific bold actions which they ordinarily believe would not otherwise be possible or politically acceptable...In effect, envisaged solutions can become rapidly translated into practical options for action following a major disaster or near-miss.

  John Beddington

  Believe, Opportunity, Impact

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• My fear of flying starts as soon as I buckle myself in and then the guy up front mumbles a few unintelligible words then before I know it I'm thrust into the back of my seat by acceleration that seems way too fast and the rest of the trip is an endless nightmare of turbulence, of near misses. And then the cabbie drops me off at the airport.

  Dennis Miller

  Inspiración, Divertido, Viajes

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• I checked the icebox. The faeries usually brought some sort of food to stock the icebox and the pantry when they cleaned, but they could have mighty odd ideas about what constituted a healthy diet. One time I'd opened the pantry and found nothing but boxes and boxes and boxes of Fruit Loops. I had a near-miss with diabetes, and Thomas, who was never quite sure where the food had come from, declared that I had clearly been driven Fruit Loopy.

  Jim Butcher

  Ideas, Missing, Healthy

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• El recuerdo de aquel acontecimiento acaba de volver a mí, ahora doblemente doloroso: pesar por un pasado desaparecido y, sobre todo, remordimiento por las oportunidades perdidas. Mithra-Grandchamp son las mujeres que no supimos amar, las oportunidades que no supimos aprovechar, los momentos de felicidad que dejamos escapar. Hoy me parece que toda mi vida no ha sido más que una sucesión de esos pequeños fracasos: una carrera cuyo resultado conocemos de antemano pero en la que no apostamos por el ganador.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Recuerdos, Arrepentimiento, Pasado

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). "La escafandra y la mariposa", p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

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• It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong...'. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion.

  Jimmie Johnson

  Real, Car, Missing

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