Nancy Greene famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
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I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.
-- Nancy Greene
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If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
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But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
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Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.
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Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
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The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.
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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
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Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
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