"I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet."

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Source : Nadia Comaneci (2009). “Letters to a Young Gymnast”, p.50, Basic Books

Nadia Comaneci

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“SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.”
“A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,”

Source : Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company
“If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them will come out with an exact version of the 'Iliad.'”
“If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.”
“Filthy, mucky tools: filthy, mucky work. Clean, beautiful tools: clean, beautiful work.”
“Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.”
“The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.”
“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”

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