"What matters is how many times you get up."

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Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys In The Boat”, p.201, Pan Macmillan

Daniel James Brown

#What Matters Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.”
“The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.”
“Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I'm unavailable all the time. It's great they're not down your throat.”
“The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“Souls and bodies should go on together.”
“I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.”
“That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (1994). “The essential Turgenev”, Northwestern Univ Pr

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