"There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives, and while the may be able to help you out, if you can motivate yourself, then you're golden."

-- Shannon Miller

#Teacher Quotes #Sibling Quotes #Gymnastics Quotes

“In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.”
“Writing is not a mystery. It is a craft like any other, and it can be learned.”
“Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.”
“Love is in the giver, not the gift.”
“Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1943). “Early and Late: Addresses, Messages, and Papers”, Hindhead, Surrey : The Soncino Press
“Travel is at its most rewarding when it ceases to be about your reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living your life”

Source : Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.”
“This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.”

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