"I can't swim. I can float. But nothing could prepare me for that, to be honest. I mean, cold is cold and this was quite extreme. I actually treasure that experience, because it was challenging enough for me to discover new strength in me. Especially the discipline and the ability to concentrate and focus so much on one thing that I can overcome some obstacles and boundaries."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Alicja Bachleda-Curus

#Mean Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Focus Quotes

“When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.”
“Things go wrong for me, all the time, with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.”
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

Source : Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!”
“The sheer magnitude of Speaker Pelosis spending spree is mind boggling. Most of us do not use the number 1,000,000,000,000 in our daily lives, so it is difficult to attach tangible value to the figure.”
“We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.”
“I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service calledÂ â€¦Â YouTwit-face.”
“Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.”

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