"I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying."

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Source : "Watchtower Actor Aleks Paunovic: Getting out of his own way, and the importance of trying". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Aleks Paunovic

#Winning Quotes #Feet Quotes #What Matters Quotes

“Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.”
“I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.”
“When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, 'Putt for one hundred dollars'.”
“There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.”
“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”
“Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.”
“Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.”

Source : Calvin Miller (1979). “The Finale”, Intervarsity Pr
“I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.”

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