"Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals."

-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#Leadership Quotes #Girl Quotes #Sports Quotes

“No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.”
“Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.”

Source : Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1676). “The Vanity of Arts and Sciences”, p.110
“If you are not lax when at leisure, you will be effective when busy. If you are not absentminded in tranquility, that will be useful in action. If you are not hypocritical in private, that will show up in public.”
“One touch is worth ten thousand words.”
“The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: â€œA good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and thereâ€™s more conversation.”
“No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value”
“I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.”
“And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.”

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