"If you go by other people's opinions or predictions, you'll just end up talking yourself out of something. If you're running down the track of life thinking that it's impossible to break life's records, those thoughts have a funny way of sinking into your feet."

-- Carl Lewis

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”

Source : Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life”, p.6, Macmillan
“We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.”
“Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
“That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.”
“Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.”
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.”

Source : Luther Burbank (2000). “The Training of the Human Plant”, p.91, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.”

Source : Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press
“If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.”

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