"I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom."

-- Kristi Yamaguchi

#Mom Quotes #Focus Quotes #Skating Quotes

“But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.”
“Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.”
“Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.”

Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.501, Pearson Education
“You deliver 2,000 babies or better - 3,000 by that time. And that's, you know, at minimum, three people each. And then if you take grandparents or grandparents of siblings and aunts and uncles, you know, you get - a 100,000 votes outta that”
“Photography is like life What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a feeling. An impression of walking through the street, walking through the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they know what it means.”
“The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.”
“When I play, I make love â€“ it is the same thing.”
“... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.”

Source : Evelyn Keyes (1978). “Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood”, Fawcett Books

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