"I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test."

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Source : "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

Ashton Eaton

#Tests Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early.”
“The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.”
“It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.”
“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”
“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.”
“I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph.D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy."”
“Empathy comes from being empathized with.”

Source : Stanley I Greenspan, Stanley Greenspan (2007). “Great Kids: Helping Your Baby and Child Develop the Ten Essential Qualities for a Healthy, Happy Life”, p.33, Da Capo Press
“'He is very ugly,' said his mother.”

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