"I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it."

--

Source : Interview with Marc Blau, 2004.

#Sports Quotes #Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I am proud that my daughter believes, as I do, that hungry children should be fed whether they are Black Panthers or White Republicans”
“The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
“My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.”
“Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.”
“I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.”
“Don't use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal.”
“Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room. In my imagination when I'm really focused I go into that white room and all that's there is me, my painting, and my tools. There's no distraction. When I'm really concentrated I like to have it silent but when I'm doing something that doesn't have to be necessarily perfect, I can just go for it.”

Source : Source: keymagfw.com
“The deficit is the symptom, but spending is the disease.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

You may also like: