"Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before."

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”

“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”

Source : Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.”

“I hammer on a theme until I'm tired of it and the audience is tired of it.”

“The thing I miss the most about Scotland is the football.”

“Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.”

Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

“Even if you don't feel like sitting down to write or working on that big proposal, or whatever it is, just show up anyhow and the rest will follow.”

Source : "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

“If you want to make information stick, it's best to learn it, go away from it for a while, come back to it later, leave it behind again, and once again return to it - to engage with it deeply across time. Our memories naturally degrade, but each time you return to a memory, you reactivate its neural network and help to lock it in.”

Source : "How I learned a language in 22 hours" by Joshua Foer, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.