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backbone
«Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top.»
Author: D. A. Benton
| Keywords:
backbone, combination, combinations, conviction, fortitude, get to, guts, intestinal, mandatory, stick, stick to, top
«The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.»
Author: Elaine Agather
| About:
Instinct
| Keywords:
backbone, bone, funny, funny bone, go with, instinct, wishbone
«No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in old-fashioned, basic concepts like hard work, determination, good planning and perseverance.»
Author: Mia Hamm
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Opportunity,
Success
| Keywords:
An iron, backbone, clad, concepts, factors, fashioned, guarantee, old fashioned, one iron, planning, timing
«May the devil make a ladder of your backbone - While he is picking apples in the garden of Hell»
Author: Old Irish toast
| About:
Devil
| Keywords:
apples, backbone, Garden of, In the Garden, ladder, picking, pickings, The Garden
«The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.»
«That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
abolished, abolishes, abolishing, backbone, band, banded, banding, despise, formation, formations, marching, needed, plague, plague spot, Plague The, plaguing, speed, spot, strained, straining, strains
«Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there?s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| About:
Evolution,
Humor
| Keywords:
backbone, cases, cosmos, cycles, evolving, fiber, fibers, frustrates, frustrating, go along, intended, millions, mysterious, organic, trial, trial and error, tune