"When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from."

-- Ian Thorpe

#Believe Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Swimming Quotes

“It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.”

Source : "Tyler Oakley’s First Ever Australian Interview – Exclusive". Interview with Monique Pueblos, herbrainvomit.com. 2013.
“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”
“We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.”
“A change initiative can fail for multiple reasons - in fact, there are just too many things that can go wrong. The focus of the initiative might be wrong - too narrow or too broad. The initiative might be poorly executed or under-resourced. But most often, a change initiative fails because it hits a behavioral impasse. Something in the culture of the company is in conflict with the objective or execution of the initiative.”
“[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.”

Source : Arnold Edwin Needham, Sarah Fielding (1943). “The Life and Works of Sarah Fielding”
“Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.”

Source : Jane Smiley (1991). “Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas”
“A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.”
“A chaste generation would restore Paradise.”

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