"Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself."

-- Michael Johnson

#Motivational Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness....”

Source : Ted Kooser (2004). “Delights & Shadows: Poems”, p.84, Copper Canyon Press
“Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.”
“Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance.”
“[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.”
“To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.”
“The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.”
“I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.”

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