"Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise."

-- Alberto Salazar

#Cocky Quotes #Careers Quotes #Training Quotes

“Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.”

Source : Allan Sekula, Illinois State University. University Galleries (1999). “Dismal science: photo works, 1972-1996”, Illinois State Univ
“So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.”

Source : Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books
“If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.”
“I'd love to write a country album with Adele.”
“If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.”
“"My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.”

Source : Source: thoughtcatalog.com
“Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.”
“No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, heâ€™d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing.”

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