Did Quotes

Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.