"The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do."

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Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

Michael Phelps

#Success Quotes #People Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“We decided we'd have to do something pretty drastic to make people realise that I wasn't going to parade about in ra-ra skirts for the rest of the century. And I'm not going to parade about in black evening gowns on tour!”
“Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish”

Source : Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher
“I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.”

Source : Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
“All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didnâ€™t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.”
“it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”
“To dispute with a drunkard is to debate with an empty house.”
“We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night...”

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