"I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight training. It's made me and given me the life that I have. And it goes way back to the eighth grade getting cut, your friends telling you that you can't do it, and you telling yourself that you can."

-- Jake Steinfeld

#Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within;.”
“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.”
“When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said â€“ to reveal ourselves in our words: We want to show what we think and feel. We let other have a glimpse into our soul.”
“I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.”
“I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.”

Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (2012). “The Bad Girl”, p.240, Faber & Faber
“The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.31, Harvard University Press
“The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.”
“It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.”

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