"I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting."

-- Picabo Street

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“Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.”
“It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
“To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.”
“More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER.”
“Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.142, Open Road Media
“Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.”
“Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.”
“With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.”

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