"I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up."

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Olga Korbut

#Courage Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.”
“I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!”
“If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.”
“I'm not building a game. I'm building a new country.”

Source : "The Other Fed Chief". www.wired.com. June 1, 2006.
“The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.”
“I will come back to India - so deal with it.”
“In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.”
“What often matters more than the activity we're doing at a moment in time is how we feel about it.”

Source : Brigid Schulte (2014). “Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time”, p.33, Macmillan

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