"I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted."

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Bode Miller

#School Quotes #Snowboarding Quotes #Technique Quotes

“I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.”
“Curses are exacting, legal arrangements of the spiritual world. Just like human contracts contain fine print and legally crafted language, satanic curses are filled with minutiae that required detailed voiding.”
“I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.”
“Nothing goes on forever; if one could only remember that.”
“When we were children, letters were like fun toys.Â We played with them through our building blocks. We colored them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for â€œcookie.â€ Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z.”
“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.28, Anchor
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”

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