"I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard."

-- Colleen De Reuck

#Perseverance Quotes #Horse Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.”
“Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.”

Source : "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.
“It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.”
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
“I think it's that wherever I go, people are so nice to me, and they come up by the hundreds, and they say nice, funny things. As an actor, I just like to make people happy, make them laugh. That's our job, to entertain, and if I'm entertaining you folks, then I'm happy.”

Source : Source: nerdyrottenscoundrel.com
“To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.”

Source : Michael Port, Mina Samuels (2009). “The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons
“All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to define our relationship.”

You may also like:

Amy Hastings
Track and field athlete
Deena Kastor
Olympic athlete
Desiree Linden
Runner
Jennifer Rhines
Olympic athlete
Joan Benoit
Olympic athlete
Kara Goucher
Olympic athlete
Shalane Flanagan
Runner
Tegla Loroupe
Catherine Ndereba
Olympic athlete