"I want to be a positive influence. I want to be someone who they want to call in and want here consistently, regardless of my role."

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Source : "Donovan candidly discusses future, retirement in wide-ranging Q&A". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. May 23, 2012.

Landon Donovan

#Roles Quotes #Want Quotes #Influence Quotes

“I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.”
“The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.”
“Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2004). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.288, W. W. Norton & Company
“If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.”
“but she realized that she wanted him to know her. She wanted him to understand her, if only because she had strange sense that he was the kind of man she could fall in love with, even if she didn't want to.”
“I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.”
“For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.”
“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!â€ he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say â€˜out of the frying-pan into the fireâ€™ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.”

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