"I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I'll come out a winner, and it doesn't matter what anyone else does."

-- Florence Griffith Joyner

#Inspirational Quotes #Doe Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.”
“With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So the French and Germans have only one realistic strategy when it comes to revitalizing their comatose economies: Wait for the U.S. economy to rise high enough to float their petits bateaux.”
“Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.”
“Slow people are just paying close attention.”

Source : Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.235, Simon and Schuster
“Generally when I'm filming something, I have a sort of exaggerated, comical, sort of grotesque version of the same scene running parallel in my head. With this process, you get to let it out of the box a little bit.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.”
“I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.”
“In addition, help your children learn self-discipline by such activities as learning to play a musical instrument or other demanding skill. I am reminded of the story of the salesman who came to a house one hot summer day. Through the screen door he could see a young boy practicing his scales on the piano. His baseball glove and hat were by the side of the piano bench. He said, "Say, boy, is your mother home?" To which the boy replied, "What do you think?" Thank heavens for conscientious parents!”

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