"There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving."

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Source : Dick Button (1955). “Dick Button on Skates”

Dick Button

#Fall Quotes #Truth Is Quotes #Poor Quotes

“Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.”
“A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.”
“What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.”
“It is not too farfetched that soon it will be possible for a physician to send the electrocardiogram and the heart sound via communication satellite to a distant heart specialist for diagnosis and consultation.”
“If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?”
“No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can't be defeated.”
“You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.”
“I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something that exists, or might exist, rather than a transcendent mental state or something like that.”

Source : Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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