"Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends."

-- Bela Karolyi

#Powerful Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.”
“The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.”
“Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, Faber & Faber
“I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since.”
“The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents to him;”
“What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page thats really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.”

Source : "Henry Selick on his 'medium dark' stop-motion movie for Disney" by Rebecca Keegan, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 27, 2012.
“If you love your children, if you love your country, if you love the God of love, clear your hands from slaves, burden not your children or your country with them.”
“I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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