"Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best."

-- Meb Keflezighi

#Running Quotes #Dream Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.”
“Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.”
“There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.”
“There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.”
“There really isn't any limit to the number of people who want a piece of you, and it's all important stuff.”
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.”
“There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.”
“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”

Source : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.

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