"All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure."

-- Roger Staubach

#Success Quotes #Sports Quotes #Stress Quotes

“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
“Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. Ours is a culture that measures our worth as human beings by our efficiency, our earnings, our ability to perform this or that. The cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living.”

Source : "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading," by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.
“There are two competing philosophies in Wool: one is that people have to live under an iron thumb in order to survive, and the other one is that everyone should live completely freely and happily and everything will sort itself out.”
“I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.”
“Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“The kinds of nets we know how to weave determine the kinds of nets we cast. These nets, in turn, determine the kinds of fish we catch..”

Source : Elliot W. Eisner “Cognition and Curriculum Reconsidered”, Teachers College Press
“I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his records, .. But for him to say that I could, it means I am doing something right. It was probably the best compliment I could get. I'm going to remember it.”
“My career has always been one of the most important things, but after having a baby you find that it drops down on the totem pole.”

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