"To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt."

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Source : Scott Tinley (2015). “Finding Triathlon: How Endurance Sports Explain the World”, p.232, Hatherleigh Press

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“You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.”

Source : "Tony Bennett: His Life in Art & Song". Interview with Roseanna Vitro, jazztimes.com. February 5, 2014.
“... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds...”
“We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.”
“Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.”
“Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.”

Source : "Monica's Manifesto". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. July 13, 2012.
“All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.”
“We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“All men of action are dreamers.”

Source : James Huneker (1913). “The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments”

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