Edge Quotes - page 6

The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success. (Denis Waitley)
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. View quote
Joanne Harris
I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk. View quote
Travis Barker
We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath. View quote
Brad Dourif
We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen, Flower on the Precipice. View quote
Tite Kubo
The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean. It only has to open it's beak. View quote
Leila Aboulela
I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. View quote
Kim Jong-un
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. View quote
Edward R. Tufte
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match. (Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair)
We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating. View quote
Adam Riess
There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge. View quote
Alain Robert
Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention. View quote
Bill Bruford
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. View quote
Bill Simmons
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. View quote
Caleb Cushing
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity. View quote
Ciaran Hinds
I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that. View quote
Colm Meaney
I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche. View quote
Conor McPherson
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. (Casey Abrams)
You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either. View quote
Dale Earnhardt
He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age. View quote
Derek Jacobi
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! View quote
Derek Jacobi
Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it. View quote
Devon Sawa