"Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves?"

-- Apolo Ohno

#Dream Quotes #Winter Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget”
“You hear stories about me beating my brains out practising, but the truth is, I was enjoying myself. I couldn't wait to get up in the morning, so I could hit balls. When I'm hitting the ball where I want, hard and crisply, it's a joy that very few people experience.”
“My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.”
“Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.”
“Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two quarters back. This pattern of disappointment and downward revision sets up the first, and the basic, challenge on the list of issues policymakers face in moving ahead: restoring growth, if that is possible.”
“Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than it is with someone 'just doing my job' or the infernal self-checkout machine.”
“Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care...”
“In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, thatÂ aÂ newÂ direction is theÂ onlyÂ direction.”

Source : "10 Tips For Success From George Lois, The Original Mad Man" by Belinda Lanks, www.fastcodesign.com. August 24, 2012.

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