"It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets."

-- Wilma Rudolph

#Cities Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Trying Quotes

“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
“There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter.”
“I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.”

Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.143, Basic Books
“The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.”
“It's the greatest achievement I've ever witnessed in all my years of being a coach and a television personality. I really, absolutely have been blown away.”
“No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.”
“His dreams are like commercials.”
“If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.”

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