"Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses."

-- Brian Clough

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“The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.”
“I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and especially their negative emotional buttons. Because words soak up emotional connotations and are processed involuntarily by the listener, you can't will yourself not to treat the word in terms of what it means.”
“There is in all visible things - a hidden wholeness.”
“I've been beating my head all day long on the same six lines,”

Source : "Alternate Take: Levon Helm" by Tracy K. Smith, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2009.
“I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; â€œthe things people donâ€™t say.”
“My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.”
“Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.”

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