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Dick Devenzio
"Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles"
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Source : Dick DeVenzio (2006). “Think Like a Champion: A Guide to Championship Performance for Student-Athletes”, p.125, BookPros, LLC
Dick Devenzio
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“Enjoying the dream is more important than interpreting it. Therefore, don't work so hard that it stops being pleasant and exciting.”
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“If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.”
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“If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.”
Source : Jules Michelet (1859). “Love: ("L'amour.")”, p.55
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“I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else”
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“Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.”
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“It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.”
Source : Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press
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“Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.”
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“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.”
