"I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win."

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Source : Dara Torres, Elizabeth Weil (2009). “Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life”, p.216, Three Rivers Press

Dara Torres

#Maturity Quotes #Winning Quotes #Dedication Quotes

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”
“My family background was deeply Christian.”
“No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.”
“Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.”
“It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.”
“I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them.”
“When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.”

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