"For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#Past Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Mind Quotes

“As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.”
“Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!”

Source : "Life As It Is" by Nelson Rodrigues, translated by Alex Ladd, Host Publications, (p. 220), 2009.
“Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?”
“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”
“I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone
“Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it”
“In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.”
“If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like "Yeah! Burgers are cool!"”

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