"I wouldn't have been what you'd call a champion if I had accepted failure when it first came, if I had looked at it and said, 'Well, that's it.'"

-- Shirley Strickland

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“Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.”

Source : Joseph Mitchell (2016). “Joe Gould's Secret”, p.66, Open Road Media
“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
“Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.”
“I'm the girl who still believes prince charming exists somewhere out there.”
“A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England”
“I look at it this way: How much of the day are you awake? You think, "I've gotta get that dry cleaning, I gotta get this going, and this, and this, and this." And all of a sudden it's dinnertime. And then there's a moment of connection with your spouse or your friends. Then you read and go to bed. Wake up and then it's the same all over. You're not awake, you're not living, you're not experiencing. We start early medicating ourselves. We start kids early, on TV and video games and so on.”
“I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that's what kept me going and got me through.”

Source : "Yuvraj Singh: The World Cup hero who bounced back from cancer" by Matthew Knight, Olivia Yasukawa, edition.cnn.com. January 23, 2015.
“He that seeketh anything else but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.”

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