"It's important to know that at the end of the day it's not the medals you remember. What you remember is the process -- what you learn about yourself by challenging yourself, the experiences you share with other people, the honesty the training demands -- those are things nobody can take away from you whether you finish twelfth or you're an Olympic Champion."

-- Silken Laumann

#Running Quotes #Honesty Quotes #People Quotes

“I consider morals and aesthetics one and the same, for they cover only one impulse, one drive inherent in our consciousness - to bring our life and all our actions into a satisfactory relationship with the events of the world as our consciousness wants it to be, in harmony with our life and according to the laws of consciousness itself.”

Source : "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, 2010.
“Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
“An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll be getting me shillelagh out next, wait'll you see.”

Source : Martin McDonagh (2013). “The Cripple Of Inishmaan”, p.63, A&C Black
“You can split atoms, but you can't split true love.”
“I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.”
“There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.”
“I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.”
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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