"All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day."

-- Cal Ripken, Jr.

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“One of the best compliments I ever got was "You know what I like about you? You're smart enough to be scared. So many guys come on cocky, they don't want to go over their stuff, they don't want to do a pre-interview. You're always smart enough to be worried till the last minute."”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.”
“The map is not the territory.”

Source : Science and Sanity (1933).
“My mom was a big 'Smurfs' fan, so she would force me to watch every Saturday morning. I had no choice in the matter. I would jump downstairs on Saturday morning, 'Hurray, cartoons!' and she would say, 'Smurfs! That's what you're watching.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like the way men cry. They're efficient.”

Source : Kaui Hart Hemmings (2008). “The Descendants”, p.110, Random House
“And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?”

Source : Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House
“Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.”
“Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'”

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