"After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again."

-- Carl Lewis

#Running Quotes #Atlanta Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.”
“Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.”
“I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.”
“God makes appointments with us in our disappointments. To see the pattern we must take three steps involving the heart, the mind, and the cross”
“We cannot underestimate the power of the different art forms, and the correspondences between them, which are an unending source of inspiration and enrichment.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 29, 2014.
“Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.”
“I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258”
“In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.”

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