"I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win]."

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Source : Source: www.elle.com

Deena Kastor

#Powerful Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.”
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
“Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.”

Source : "Black Dynamite's Michael Jai White and Scott Sanders: The Movieline Interview". Interview with S.T. Vanairsdale, movieline.com. October 14, 2009.
“That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“People say to me now, Oh, youve given up the piano. How can you? Music is a virus.”
“The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn ... spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end ... earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul.”

Source : Monica Baldwin (1950). “I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-eight Years in a Convent”
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.190, City Lights Books
“A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.”

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