"I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an outsider and like it was never going to happen. But even if I would have known, I think I still would have done it. Dancers are perfectionists, and that's what keeps us going and growing."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Misty Copeland

#Hard Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.”

Source : Ian Mortimer (2009). “The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through.”
“Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.”
“To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.”
“As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
“You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.”
“Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.”
“I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...”

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