"I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Ian Thorpe

#Thinking Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Training Quotes

“Comedy is taken care of by a free market.”
“It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.”
“Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.”
“...I don't need any explanation about what you do with your life. You and I...we grew up together,and that's it. Yeah, we shared a lot of stuff back then, and we were there for each other when it mattered. But neither one of us can fit into the clothes we used to wear , and this relationship between us is just the same. It doesn't fit in our lives any longer. We don't...fit anymore. And listen., I didn't mean to get pissy in the truck, but I think you need to be clear on this. You and I? We have a past. That's it. That's ...all we'll ever have" (Blay to Qhuinn)...”
“No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.”
“Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.”
“We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.”

Source : Wallace Thurman (1979). “Infants of the spring: a novel”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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