"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."

-- Nigel Mansell

#Athlete Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the most remote from poetry. Yet it is here that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.”
“Managing the power of choice, with all its creative and spiritual implications, is the essence of the human experience. All spiritual teachings are directed toward inspiring us to recognize that the power to make choices is the dynamic that converts our spirits into matter, our words into flesh. Choice is the process of creation itself.”
“I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.”
“I believe that you become yourself every single day of your life through your choices and how you think. And that's constantly changing every day... You are constantly changing, evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences... Being yourself means you think with your own mind, and you make your own choices and that makes you you.”
“I detest the word plot.Â I never, never think of plot.Â I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell you a story-maybe a thousand stories. The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.”
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
“If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.”
“The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.35

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