"I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be."

-- Oscar Pistorius

#Block Quotes #Giving Quotes #People Quotes

“As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.”

Source : Barbara Wentroble (2003). “Prophetic Intercession: Unlocking Miracles and Releasing the Blessings of God”, p.92, Gospel Light Publications
“Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.”
“The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.”
“The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful,”
“You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.”
“I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.”

Source : "15 Questions with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Synne D. Chapman, www.thecrimson.com. May 14, 2008.
“I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.”
“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.”

Source : "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.

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