"Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift."

-- Chris Evert

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“Prom is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.”
“Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.”
“They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.”

Source : "People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.
“The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.”
“Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.”
“Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.”
“Stupid is as stupid looks.”

Source : Winston Groom (2013). “Gump & Co.”, p.106, Random House
“Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.”

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