"Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way."

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Source : Source: bigthink.com

Ingrid Betancourt

#Hands Quotes #Important Quotes #Able Quotes

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.”
“Follow the lead of your symptoms, for thereâ€™s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.”
“Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”
“[The Women's Room] was the first thing I read that explained a lot of the feelings I was having and a lot of the rage and the feeling uncomfortable in my body and knowing that I was feeling a certain way in the world, but I didn't have the language for it.”
“You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Roger Federer and my boyfriend, Tiger Woods, inspire me. It's incredible what they've done in their respective sports, especially Roger. He is the nicest and humblest guy. You would never know that he's the best tennis player of all time. And Tiger is so mentally tough. He can block everything completely out and stay in the moment.”
“You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.”

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