"One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top."

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Source : Bob Richards (2009). “The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph”, p.74, Revell

Bob Richards

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“Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.”

Source : This Week Magazine 1937
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1976). “The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard”, p.140, Harvard University Press
“My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.”
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
“The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“The unknown is uncontrolled; no strategies exist that will enclose the endless territory of the new. Only by trusting in yourself and in this world can you get past the watchdogs of your fears and out of the iron gates of the already-known.”
“Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.”

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