"This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away."

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Rumi

#Courage Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Gold Quotes

“The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.”
“Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.”
“I am never wrong when it comes to my possibilities.”
“As good as we were, we didnâ€™t win a National Championship until 1993, mainly because we kept losing to Miami on missed kicks.Â I used to get mad because nobody else would play Miami.Â Notre Dame would play them, then drop them.Â Florida dropped them.Â Penn State dropped them.Â We would play Miami and lose by one point on a missed field goal, and it would knock us out of the National Championship.Â I didnâ€™t want to play them, either, but I had to play them.Â Thatâ€™s why I said, When I die, Theyâ€™ll say, â€˜At least he played Miami.”
“Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization. . . . A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.”
“I guess I'm interested in pushing the boundaries of the cello without giving up on the idea of playing the cello, if that makes any sense. I have no real interest in putting the cello through different effects to make it sound like a guitar or other instruments.”
“I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word”
“How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.”

Source : Stephen Charnock (1866). “The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.”, p.142

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