"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces."

-- Wilma Rudolph

#Mother Quotes #Believe Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.53, Counterpoint Press
“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
“But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.”
“We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.”
“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
“What, then, is the basic difference between today's computer and an intelligent being? It is that the computer can be made to seebut not to perceive. What matters here is not that the computer is without consciousness but that thus far it is incapable of the spontaneous grasp of pattern--a capacity essential to perception and intelligence.”
“The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch.”
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”

Source : Peter Benchley (2012). “Jaws”, p.108, Fawcett

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