David Oliver famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In order to be great, you have to learn from greatness, which is what I have tried to do.
-- David Oliver

#Motivational #Greatness #Order
It was tough. That may happen at the Trials. You are so in the zone when you are in there it's tough running halfway down the track and having to come back. If it's in the rules then an athlete should be able to run under protest. Aries is not a guy that is know for false starts. Now I need to go and get ready for the Trials.
-- David Oliver

#Running #Athlete #Track

If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur vÃ©ritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'Ã©lever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("supplÃ©er", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par lÃ ", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).
In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

David Oliver famous quotes

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