"I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship."

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Source : "Dorothy Hamill: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.

Dorothy Hamill

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“Your career you will only hear the drum of setback but it is time to shine! Whatever situation you have been facing - this is the time you have been praying for to shine, to move, to overcome, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!”
“Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. â€”From the Erudite faction manifesto”
“The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.”
“Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.”
“The things that we love tell us what we are.”
“Some days I think she was really miserable, because she cried a lot. In a way, I'd had to steel my heart to her crying. You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick.”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. â€¦ But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).”

Source : Matthew B. Crawford (2009). “Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work”, p.146, Penguin
“It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.”

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