"Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves."

-- Kieren Perkins

#People Quotes #Swim Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.”
“Shannon's most radical insight was that meaning was irrelevant.”

Source : "Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street". Book by William Poundstone, 2005.
“For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.”
“Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?”
“I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football inspires me. I would love to do Shakespeare again, but in London this time. I'm pretty much open to receive the right opportunities with the right people.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”
“Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.”

Source : Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.49, MP Publishing
“I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.”

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