"And yet as a coach, I know that being fixated on winning (or more likely, not losing) is counterproductive, especially when it causes you to lose control of your emotions. Whatâ€™s more, obsessing about winning is a loserâ€™s game: The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way."

-- Phil Jackson

#Letting Go Quotes #Fun Quotes #Winning Quotes

“The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.”
“People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'”

Source : Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.165, Da Capo Press
“I was baptized into Christ. I died when He died. Sinâ€™s power over me has been broken, in Jesusâ€™ name!”
“You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.”

Source : "Actor-director Kevin Bacon". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2013.
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.”

Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press
“I do wear suits all the time.”
“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.”

Source : "Aaron Sorkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 14, 2010.

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