"Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."

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Source : "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

Kevin Bacon

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“Near the foot of the mountain we visited a yogi who dwelled in a hollow tunneled beneath a boulder. He pondered our notion of climbing Shivling and said: 'First travel, then struggle, finally calm'.”

Source : Greg Child (2012). “Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child”, p.52, The Mountaineers Books
“You can't measure success if you have never failed. My father has taught me that if you really do want to reach your goals, you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to win or lose. Focus only on getting better.”
“I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.”
“Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.”
“I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.”
“Exercise can't counteract the damage being done to your body while you continue to smoke. What exercise can do is help you kick the habit.”

Source : Kenneth H. Cooper (1986). “Running without fear: how to reduce the risk of heart attack and sudden death during aerobic exercise”, Bantam
“I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.”
“Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.”

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