"Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test."

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Source : "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

Mike Tyson

#Quagmire Quotes #Genius Quotes #May Quotes

“I like to dress up but I'm not so concerned with looking very sexy, it's really more the art of dressing.”
“Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency”
“Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.”
“The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.”
“I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.”
“In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.”

Source : "Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals 'Think'". www.heritage.org. May 10, 2007.
“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”

Source : William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”
“This is where our obsession with going fast and saving time leads. To road rage, air rage, shopping rage, relationship rage, office rage, vacation rage, gym rage. Thanks to speed, we live in the age of rage.”

Source : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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