"We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do."

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Source : "How Do Our Near-Wins Motivate Us To Keep Going?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2014.

Sarah Lewis

#Done Quotes #Thrive Quotes #Stills Quotes

“At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”

Source : "While Rome Burns". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1934.
“None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.”
“I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.”
“Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.”
“The girls everyone considers the "prettiest" are not always the most interesting or ambitious people.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public because everybody loves an audience. Contrast him to your friends, and compare him with his predecessors.”
“Life is a positive-sum game. Everyone from the gold medallist to the last finisher can rejoice in a personal victory.”
“I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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