"I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see"."

-- Dick Fosbury

#Athlete Quotes #Successful Quotes #Technique Quotes

“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”
“My intention is to live more fully each moment with who - how - I actually am, not who I imagine I will be one day.”
“The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.”
“The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.”

Source : Thomas Hoving (2011). “Art For Dummies”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons
“If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.”
“Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!”
“Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.”

Source : "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.
“The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.”

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