"We all love to win, but how many people love to train?"

-- Mark Spitz

#Winning Quotes #People Quotes #Train Quotes

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
“My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.
“Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: Thatâ€™s it. Thatâ€™s my heart.”
“The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.”
“Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.”
“I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.”
“Once, I was at a party...This was at a time when it seemed like I had everything. I was young. I was undefeated. I had money. I`d just moved into my own home. People at the party were laughing and having fun. And I missed my mother. I felt so lonely. I remember asking myself, `Why isn`t my mother here? Why are all these people around me? I don`t want these people around me.' I looked out the window and started crying.”
“It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.”

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