"Mental Toughness: The ability to consistently perform toward the upper range of your talent and skill regardless of the competitive circumstances."

-- James E. Loehr

#Skills Quotes #Mental Toughness Quotes #Talent Quotes

“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf
“The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.”
“Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...”

Source : Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”
“The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.”
“The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.”
“When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”
“Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.”

Source : Kaye Gibbons (2012). “Ellen Foster”, p.1, Algonquin Books

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