"Eventually I went back to high school. I went to a coaching center in my neighborhood. I had to leave the homeless situation because it was so bad and I knew that I was falling deeper and deeper."

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Source : Source: bluemesareview.org

Luis J. Rodriguez

#Fall Quotes #School Quotes #Coaching Quotes

“Potential counts for a lot; but heart, desire, and will can take a dream from potential to possible.”

Source : Robert Cheeke (2011). “Vegan Bodybuilding and Fitness”, p.52, Book Publishing Company
“If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.”
“I wish we could just stay on the bandstand, it's so peaceful up here.”
“I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention...”
“I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present”

Source : Maya Lin (2016). “Boundaries”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.”
“That's something lacking in a lot of modern-day families - just talking. It's almost a lost art form.”
“My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.”

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