"Focus on winning the contest with yourself."

-- John Kessel

#Sports Quotes #Winning Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I have a lot of problems with Western European easel painting.”
“From the beginning of my days, it comes right back down to my parents. Raising all the kids. They really taught me principles of hard work, honesty and integrity. Those are the things that will always carry with you. My brother and I carry on those qualities that my parents have taught us. It helps keep me in check.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.”
“In L.A. you can hide. I can hide at the beach, hide up in the hills. [In Miami] everybody is looking at you.”
“There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'”

Source : "Kids Need To Explore Real World" by Henry Norr, www.sfgate.com. September 18, 2000.
“I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.
“A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.”

Source : "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.
“The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones”

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