"The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon."

-- Barry S. Strauss

#Baseball Quotes #Workout Quotes #Wings Quotes

“An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward, 'Gentlemen, let there be no mistake. I should make a good president, but a very bad candidate.”

Source : James Bryce (1920). “The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag
“To love yourself is a never-ending journey.”
“If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.”

Source : Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.285, Pan Macmillan
“There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.”
“He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry”
“The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic.”
“Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving.Â Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.”

Source : Bob Burg, John David Mann (2015). “The Go-Giver, Expanded Edition: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea”, p.17, Penguin
“When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.”

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