quotes about Newman

“They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano”

“You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.”

“Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you.”

“We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.”

Source : Kyle Maynard (2012). “No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

“For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!”

“I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.”

Source : "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 09, 2011.

“I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”

“There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.”

“Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.”

Source : Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.8, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."