"Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?"

-- Dan Gable

#Giving Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.37, Spiegel & Grau
“When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”

Source : 1977 In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.
“You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2009). “This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel”, p.193, Penguin
“I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.”
“What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.”
“Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.”
“Obedience is a part of greatness.”

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