"I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet."

-- Debbie Meyer

#Hard Times Quotes #Years Quotes #Practice Quotes

“When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?”
“A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.”
“Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.”
“On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.”
“Any phrase that suggests play is this domain that's the opposite of work, or the thing that you do when you're done working, should trouble us. Because it means that play is always relegated to the exhaust of life. It's the thing that you do after you do the important stuff, it's what you do on your own time.”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.”
“The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases...”
“Even now, hearing the debates about Medicaid, the suggestion that somehow we could save money by cutting Medicaid strikes a chord in me personally. It seems there are some other ways we can save money rather than making it harder for people like my aunt to get health care.”

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